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Record Nr.

UNINA9910592288603321

Autore

Strüver Anke

Titolo

Platformization of Urban Life : Towards a Technocapitalist Transformation of European Cities / / ed. by Sybille Bauriedl, Anke Strüver

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2022

Bielefeld : , : transcript Verlag, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

3-8394-5964-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Collana

Urban Studies

Disciplina

300

Soggetti

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- THANK YOU! -- Platformized Cities and Urban Life -- CONDITIONS OF PLATFORMIZATION OF URBAN LIFE -- Platforms Becoming Infrastructural? -- From Smart to Platform Urbanism to Platform Municipalism -- The Politics of Geodata in Urban Platform Capitalism -- Looking for Glitches in Mobility Platforms -- PLATFORM-MEDIATED CARE-WORK IN CITIES -- Platform Care as Care Fix -- Second Shift 2.0 -- “When Clean Angels Calls, I Run” -- Platforms for Basic Needs -- SPATIAL AND SOCIAL EFFECTS OF PLATFORMIZATION -- #FairDelivery? -- Riders United Will Never Be Divided? -- <title>“Processed Food on the Urban Data Highway. Food Delivery Services as In_Visible Infrastructure in the Production of Urbanity” </title> -- Ordinary Invitations in Spaces of Everyday Life -- PLATFORM CAPITALISM IN NEOLIBERAL TIMES -- Echo Chambers of Urban Design -- The Financialization of the Housing Market in the Digital Era -- Smart Ambivalences -- Platform Urbanization and Citizenship -- Biographies

Sommario/riassunto

The increasing platformisation of urban life needs critical perspectives to examine changing everyday practices and power shifts brought about by the expansion of digital platforms mediating care-services, housing and mobility. This book addresses new modes of producing urban spaces and societies. It brings both platform researchers and



activists from various fields related to critical urban studies and labour activism into dialogue. The contributors engage with the socio-spatial and normative implications of platform-mediated urban everyday life and urban futures, going beyond a rigid techno-dystopian stance in order to include an understanding of platforms as sites of social creativity and exchange.