Handbook of Platform Urbanism

Edited by Annelien Smets, Professor of Communication Sciences and Pieter Ballon, Professor of Communication Sciences, imec-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

• ContentsPART I INTRODUCTION1 Introduction to the Handbook of Platform Urbanism 2Pieter Ballon and Annelien Smets2 Platform urbanism: ideology, capitalism and inequalities 17Federico Caprotti3 The platform playbook: platforms as powerful organisational models forfuture cities 29Sarah BarnsPART II URBAN PLATFORM ECONOMICS4 Platform sabotage 45Aaron Shapiro5 The urban political economy of attention: the case of São Paulo’s Centro 60Petter Törnberg6 Platform-based urban entrepreneurialism in China: the case of Zibo, thecity of barbecue 73Han Chu and Robert Hassink7 Crowdfunding and value-sharing: the case of saving the Gartenbaukinocinema 85Anders Rykkja and Carolina Dalla Chiesa8 Subsidising network effects: the case of carpooling in France 97Antoine VerhulstPART III GOVERNANCE AND REGULATION IN PLATFORM URBANISM9 Public-Private Partnerships in smart cities and the privatisation ofcitizenship 114Bárbara Lazarotto and Paul De Hert10 How law enables platform urbanism: the case of municipal power andplatform regulation 127Beatriz Botero Arcila11 Institutional strategies in the sharing economy: the case of ride-hailing andhospitality lodging in Brussels 142Michaël Distelmans and Ilse Scheerlinck12 AI Localism: the emergence of AI governance at the local level 156Sara Marcucci, Natalia González Alarcón and Stefaan VerhulstPART IV MEDIATED SPATIALITY AND URBAN LIFE13 Representation of space in Google Maps: the case of Poznań 173Maciej Główczyński14 Urban assemblages through digital platforms: the case of Istanbul 187Fatih Eren15 Methods in platform urbanism: everyday platform urbanism andethnography 200Johan VaidePART V PLATFORM COMMUNITIES16 Platform commoning as a path to social justice in the datafied city 211Laura Temmerman and Dorottya Varga17 Platform cooperatives: the case of Gebiedonline 225Filipe Mello Rose18 Urban platforms as drivers of socio-environmental transformations: thecase of civic monitoring and civic assemblies around Milan 240Anna Berti Suman19 Dual spatiality in platform communities: the case of Drivers Club Bogotá 255Luis Hernando Lozano Paredes and Gabriela Quintana Vigiola20 Methods in platform urbanism: participatory approaches and citizenscience 269Liubov Tupikina, Zahra Farook and Muki HaklayPART VI CITIZENSHIP AND INEQUALITIES21 Platformisation, technical citizenship and making space for rights in thecity 284Aphra Kerr and Jo Pierson22 Soft masculinities: the case of food delivery platform workers in Helsinki 297Yu-Shan Tseng23 Contested data: the case of the gentrifying neighbourhood of Parc-Extension, Montréal 306Yaya Baumann, Alessandra Renzi, Sepideh Shahamati and Tamara Vukov24 Do smart cities need smart contracts? Community Benefits Agreements asblockchain-enabled accountability frameworks 320Ushnish Sengupta

‘This book is an essential primer for platform urbanism providing a comprehensive overview of how platformed apps are reshaping the organisation and operation of city services across the globe. Written by leading experts, the chapters provide illuminating conceptual and empirical insights into how platforms are reconfiguring urban economics, raising concerns regarding governance, citizenship and inequalities, and remediating community and place-making.’