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Platformization of Urban Life Towards a Technocapitalist Transformation of European Cities
Public Space in Transition
F O R S A L E I N T H E U N I T E D S TAT E S , C A N A D A , M E X I C O , C E N T R A L A M E R I C A , SOUTH AMERICA, THE CARIBBEAN, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, AND ASIA
ANKE STRÜVER AND SYBILLE BAURIEDL,
Co-production and Co-management of Privately Owned Public Space in Seoul and Berlin
EDITORS
DAHAE LEE
The increasing platformization of urban life demands critical perspectives to examine changing everyday practices and power shifts brought about by the expansion of digital platforms mediating care services, housing, and mobility. This book addresses new modes of producing urban spaces and societies. It brings both platform researchers and activists from various fields related to critical urban studies and labor activism into dialogue. The contributors engage with the socio-spatial and normative implications of platform-mediated urban everyday life and urban futures, going beyond a rigid technodystopian stance in order to achieve an understanding of platforms as sites of social creativity and exchange.
Teheran-ro in Seoul and Mediaspree area in Berlin are pristine examples of public spaces with histories of rapid change in the context of broader political and economic transitions. Dahae Lee shows that in transitional contexts, the public sector alone is incapable of providing and managing public space. Hence, it engages private sector entities in the form of privately owned public space/s (POPS). By analyzing the planning instruments used for POPS in both cases, she reveals their uniqueness, as well as their strengths and weaknesses. Based on these findings, Lee offers a number of policy recommendations for cities that encounter similar problems.
ANKE STRÜVER
is a professor of human geography with a
focus on urban studies at Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. SYBILLE BAURIEDL
is a professor of integrative geography
at Europa-Universität Flensburg.
DAHAE LEE
is a research associate at the Faculty of Spatial
Planning at Technische Universität Dortmund. Prior to her PhD at Technische Universität Dortmund, she studied geography and urban planning at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and University College London. Her research focuses on public space governance and urban transformation.
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A U G U S T 200 pages / 5.31" x 8.86"
M AY 202 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 33 b&w figures, 43 color figures
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