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Book SynopsisProviding a comprehensive overview of the urban sharing economy, this
Modern Guide takes a forward-looking perspective on how sharing goods and services may facilitate future sustainability of consumption and production. It highlights recent developments and issues, with cutting-edge discussions from leading international scholars in business, engineering, environmental management, geography, law, planning, sociology and transport studies.
A Modern Guide to the Urban Sharing Economy begins with basic concepts and definitions, providing broad context with a focus on shifting service modalities, regulatory frameworks, and a historical overview of how sharing came to be a staple feature of the economies of contemporary cities. The second section focusses on shared mobility, with a particular lens on micromobility, parking, ride-hailing, car-sharing and ride-sharing. The third section focusses on shared space, including coworking office spaces and short-term rentals, as well as shared goods and services, including streaming music services, clothing rental services, food sharing and tool libraries. The book concludes by outlining the key ethical challenges that face the sharing economy.
Real-world case studies are presented from authors in more than a dozen countries, making this a helpful and invigorating read for scholars of the sharing economy, urban studies and sustainable development. A Modern Guide to the Urban Sharing Economy is likely to also be of interest to those studying urban planning, human geography, and other disciplines focussing on the future of planetary urbanisation.
Trade Review‘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.‘Table of ContentsContents: PART I INTRODUCTION 1 Introduction to A Modern Guide to the Urban Sharing Economy 2 Thomas Sigler and Jonathan Corcoran PART II UNDERSTANDING THE SHARING ECONOMY 2 What is the sharing economy? Origins and precedents 12 Sirat Mahmuda, Thomas Sigler, Jonathan Corcoran and Eric Knight 3 Regulating the urban sharing economy 28 Nestor M. Davidson and John J. Infranca 4 The identity crisis of ‘sharing’: from the co-op economy to the urban sharing economy phenomenon 41 Andrea Geissinger, Louise Pelgander and Christina Öberg 5 Overcoming scarcity through efficient consumption: innovative sharing initiatives 56 Pia A. Albinsson, B. Yasanthi Perera and Merlyn A. Griffiths PART III SHARING SPACES AND PLACES 6 Short-term rental platforms: home-sharing or sharewashed neoliberalism? 73 Petter Törnberg 7 Parking policy and bay-sharing for unmooring automobility from cities 88 Anthony Kimpton, Dorina Pojani, Neil Sipe and Jonathan Corcoran 8 The impact and regulatory issues of Airbnb in a mid-sized city: Valencia (Spain) 104 Shirley Nieuwland and Luis del Romero Renau 9 Sharing office spaces: coworking spaces from grassroots initiatives to globalised shared-office companies 120 Agnes Katharina Müller PART IV SHARING TRANSPORT 10 Bicycle sharing in cities 138 Oliver O’Brien 11 Bike-sharing and ride-hailing in Chinese cities 152 Fengjun Jin 12 Shared micromobility: policy and practices in the United States 167 Susan Shaheen and Adam Cohen 13 Street smart technology: Gojek as urban infrastructure 182 Onat Kibaroglu PART V SHARING THINGS 14 A spatiotemporal approach to micromobility 197 Grant McKenzie and Carlos Baez 15 Urban food sharing 211 Anna R. Davies 16 The environmental implications of car-sharing 225 Andrius Plepys and Ana María Arbeláez Vélez 17 The role of tool libraries in the new economy: sharing in an economic degrowth society 239 Sabrina Chakori and Shane Hopkinson 18 Clothes sharing in cities: the case of fashion leasing 256 Kirsi Niinimäki 19 The intricate relationship between music and the sharing economy 269 Raphaël Nowak PART VI CHALLENGES AND FUTURE PROSPECTS 20 Discrimination in the urban sharing economy 284 Awais Piracha, Rachel Sharples and Kevin Dunn 21 The sharing economy or the erring economy? How the law of amplification brings out the best and the worst in platform-based technologies 298 Kentaro Toyama Index
