Edited by Thomas Sigler, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography and Jonathan Corcoran, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Queensland, Australia

• Contents:PART I INTRODUCTION1 Introduction to A Modern Guide to the Urban Sharing Economy 2Thomas Sigler and Jonathan CorcoranPART II UNDERSTANDING THE SHARING ECONOMY2 What is the sharing economy? Origins and precedents 12Sirat Mahmuda, Thomas Sigler, Jonathan Corcoran and Eric Knight3 Regulating the urban sharing economy 28Nestor M. Davidson and John J. Infranca4 The identity crisis of ‘sharing’: from the co-op economy tothe urban sharing economy phenomenon 41Andrea Geissinger, Louise Pelgander and Christina Öberg5 Overcoming scarcity through efficient consumption:innovative sharing initiatives 56Pia A. Albinsson, B. Yasanthi Perera and Merlyn A. GriffithsPART III SHARING SPACES AND PLACES6 Short-term rental platforms: home-sharing or sharewashedneoliberalism? 73Petter Törnberg7 Parking policy and bay-sharing for unmooringautomobility from cities 88Anthony Kimpton, Dorina Pojani, Neil Sipe and Jonathan Corcoran8 The impact and regulatory issues of Airbnb in a mid-sizedcity: Valencia (Spain) 104Shirley Nieuwland and Luis del Romero Renau9 Sharing office spaces: coworking spaces from grassrootsinitiatives to globalised shared-office companies 120Agnes Katharina MüllerPART IV SHARING TRANSPORT10 Bicycle sharing in cities 138Oliver O’Brien11 Bike-sharing and ride-hailing in Chinese cities 152Fengjun Jin12 Shared micromobility: policy and practices in the United States 167Susan Shaheen and Adam Cohen13 Street smart technology: Gojek as urban infrastructure 182Onat KibarogluPART V SHARING THINGS14 A spatiotemporal approach to micromobility 197Grant McKenzie and Carlos Baez15 Urban food sharing 211Anna R. Davies16 The environmental implications of car-sharing 225Andrius Plepys and Ana María Arbeláez Vélez17 The role of tool libraries in the new economy: sharing inan economic degrowth society 239Sabrina Chakori and Shane Hopkinson18 Clothes sharing in cities: the case of fashion leasing 256Kirsi Niinimäki19 The intricate relationship between music and the sharing economy 269Raphaël NowakPART VI CHALLENGES AND FUTURE PROSPECTS20 Discrimination in the urban sharing economy 284Awais Piracha, Rachel Sharples and Kevin Dunn21 The sharing economy or the erring economy? How thelaw of amplification brings out the best and the worst inplatform-based technologies 298Kentaro ToyamaIndex

‘Spanning multiple disciplines and continents, A Modern Guide to the Urban Sharing Economy documents how sharing platforms transform mobility, space and our relationship with things. How platforms are regulated will determine whether ‘‘sharing‘‘ delivers community, prosperity and sustainability; or exclusion, precarity and hyper-extraction. Regulation requires a map. Here it is.‘