Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge, eds. 2021. Platform Urbanism and Its Discontents. Rotterdam: nai010 publishers. ISBN 9789462086159 [Edited Book]

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Platform Urbanism and Its Discontents discusses the fundamental transformation of urban space through platform technologies.

By reorganizing access to a wide spectrum of fundamental domains, such as education, housing, health care, or even political information, platforms are destined to become the most powerful players regulating the way we live in cities. Digital platforms such as Facebook, Uber, Airbnb and Amazon embody not only new types of enterprises but also a completely new culture of life—from the products we handle and the services we use every day to entire urban neighbourhoods that will be built by major platform enterprises in the next few years. These multi-scalar changes raise significant questions about the social potentials and risks of the architecture of these all-encompassing ecosystems.

Item Type:	Edited Book
Keywords:	platform capitalism, platform urbanism, digital technologies, speculation, participation
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Visual Cultures
Date:	May 2021
Item ID:	34083
Date Deposited:	27 Sep 2023 10:05
Last Modified:	27 Sep 2023 10:05
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/34083

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