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What is Sharing Cities: A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities (Urban and Industrial Environments) about?

**How cities can build on the "sharing economy" and smart technology to deliver a "sharing paradigm" that supports justice, solidarity, and sustainability.** The future of humanity is urban, and the nature of urban space enables, and necessitates, sharing -- of resources, goods and services, experiences. Yet traditional forms of sharing have been undermined in modern cities by social fragmentation and commercialization of the public realm. In __Sharing Cities__, Duncan McLaren and Julian Agyeman argue that the intersection of cities' highly networked physical space with new digital technologies and new mediated forms of sharing offers cities the opportunity to connect smart technology to justice, solidarity, and sustainability. McLaren and Agyeman explore the opportunities and risks for sustainability, solidarity, and justice in the changing nature of sharing. McLaren and Agyeman propose a new "sharing paradigm," which goes beyond the faddish "sharing economy" -- seen in such ventures as Uber and TaskRabbit -- to envision models of sharing that are not always commercial but also communal, encouraging trust and collaboration. Detailed case studies of San Francisco, Seoul, Copenhage

Who reads Sharing Cities: A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities (Urban and Industrial Environments)?

Author

Duncan McLaren and Julian Agyeman

Publisher

The MIT Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262329712

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Political Science, Economics