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,
Copenhagen, Medellin, Amsterdam, and Bengaluru (formerly Bangalore)
contextualize the authors' discussions of collaborative consumption
and production; the shared public realm, both physical and virtual;
the design of sharing to enhance equity and justice; and the
prospects for scaling up the sharing paradigm though city
governance. They show how sharing could shift values and norms,
enable civic engagement and political activism, and rebuild a
shared urban commons. Their case for sharing and solidarity offers
a powerful alternative for urban futures to conventional
"race-to-the-bottom" narratives of competition, enclosure, and
division.
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