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This title takes the broadest possible scope to interrogate the
emergence of "platform urbanism", examining how it transforms urban
infrastructure, governance, knowledge production, and everyday
life, and brings together leading scholars and early-career
researchers from across five continents and multiple disciplines.
The volume advances theoretical debates at the leading edge of the
intersection between urbanism, governance, and the digital economy,
by drawing on a range of empirically detailed cases from which to
theorize the multiplicity of forms that platform urbanism takes. It
draws international comparisons between urban platforms across
sites, with attention to the leading edges of theory and practice
and explores the potential for a renewal of civic life, engagement,
and participatory governance through "platform cooperativism" and
related movements. A breadth of tangible and diverse examples of
platform urbanism provides critical insights to scholars examining
the interface of digital technologies and urban infrastructure,
urban governance, urban knowledge production, and everyday urban
life. The book will be invaluable on a range of undergraduate and
postgraduate courses, as well as for academics and researchers in
these fields, including anthropology, geography, innovation
studies, politics, public policy, science and technology studies,
sociology, sustainable development, urban planning, and urban
studies. It will also appeal to an engaged, academia-adjacent
readership, including city and regional planners, policymakers, and
third-sector researchers in the realms of citizen engagement,
industrial strategy, regeneration, sustainable development, and
transport.
This title takes the broadest possible scope to interrogate the
emergence of "platform urbanism", examining how it transforms urban
infrastructure, governance, knowledge production, and everyday
life, and brings together leading scholars and early-career
researchers from across five continents and multiple disciplines.
The volume advances theoretical debates at the leading edge of the
intersection between urbanism, governance, and the digital economy,
by drawing on a range of empirically detailed cases from which to
theorize the multiplicity of forms that platform urbanism takes. It
draws international comparisons between urban platforms across
sites, with attention to the leading edges of theory and practice
and explores the potential for a renewal of civic life, engagement,
and participatory governance through "platform cooperativism" and
related movements. A breadth of tangible and diverse examples of
platform urbanism provides critical insights to scholars examining
the interface of digital technologies and urban infrastructure,
urban governance, urban knowledge production, and everyday urban
life. The book will be invaluable on a range of undergraduate and
postgraduate courses, as well as for academics and researchers in
these fields, including anthropology, geography, innovation
studies, politics, public policy, science and technology studies,
sociology, sustainable development, urban planning, and urban
studies. It will also appeal to an engaged, academia-adjacent
readership, including city and regional planners, policymakers, and
third-sector researchers in the realms of citizen engagement,
industrial strategy, regeneration, sustainable development, and
transport.
A critical look at the political economy of urban bicycle
infrastructure in the United States Not long ago, bicycling in the
city was considered a radical statement or a last resort, and few
cyclists braved the inhospitable streets of most American cities.
Today, however, the urban cyclist represents progress and the urban
"renaissance." City leaders now undertake ambitious new bicycle
infrastructure plans and bike share schemes to promote the
environmental, social, and economic health of the city and its
residents. Cyclescapes of the Unequal City contextualizes and
critically examines this new wave of bicycling in American cities,
exploring how bicycle infrastructure planning has become a key
symbol of-and site of conflict over-uneven urban development. John
G. Stehlin traces bicycling's rise in popularity as a key policy
solution for American cities facing the environmental, economic,
and social contradictions of the previous century of sprawl. Using
in-depth case studies from San Francisco, Philadelphia, and
Detroit, he argues that the mission of bicycle advocacy has
converged with, and reshaped, the urban growth machine around a
model of livable, environmentally friendly, and innovation-based
urban capitalism. While advocates envision a more sustainable city
for all, the deployment of bicycle infrastructure within the
framework of the neoliberal city in many ways intensifies divisions
along lines of race, class, and space. Cyclescapes of the Unequal
City speaks to a growing interest in bicycling as an urban economic
and environmental strategy, its role in the politics of
gentrification, and efforts to build more diverse coalitions of
bicycle advocates. Grounding its analysis in both regional
political economy and neighborhood-based ethnography, this book
ultimately uses the bicycle as a lens to view major shifts in
today's American city.
A critical look at the political economy of urban bicycle
infrastructure in the United States Not long ago, bicycling in the
city was considered a radical statement or a last resort, and few
cyclists braved the inhospitable streets of most American cities.
Today, however, the urban cyclist represents progress and the urban
"renaissance." City leaders now undertake ambitious new bicycle
infrastructure plans and bike share schemes to promote the
environmental, social, and economic health of the city and its
residents. Cyclescapes of the Unequal City contextualizes and
critically examines this new wave of bicycling in American cities,
exploring how bicycle infrastructure planning has become a key
symbol of-and site of conflict over-uneven urban development. John
G. Stehlin traces bicycling's rise in popularity as a key policy
solution for American cities facing the environmental, economic,
and social contradictions of the previous century of sprawl. Using
in-depth case studies from San Francisco, Philadelphia, and
Detroit, he argues that the mission of bicycle advocacy has
converged with, and reshaped, the urban growth machine around a
model of livable, environmentally friendly, and innovation-based
urban capitalism. While advocates envision a more sustainable city
for all, the deployment of bicycle infrastructure within the
framework of the neoliberal city in many ways intensifies divisions
along lines of race, class, and space. Cyclescapes of the Unequal
City speaks to a growing interest in bicycling as an urban economic
and environmental strategy, its role in the politics of
gentrification, and efforts to build more diverse coalitions of
bicycle advocates. Grounding its analysis in both regional
political economy and neighborhood-based ethnography, this book
ultimately uses the bicycle as a lens to view major shifts in
today's American city.
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