![]() ![]() What transpires, increasingly, is a vision of the urban future as technologically complex. ![]() Recent years have seen a significant evolution in the content and trajectory of emergent themes in urban futures research, from the eco city and low-carbon city of the 1990s and early 2000s (Joss 2015), to digital cities and the smart city in the 2010s, and more in between (de Jong et al. We further outline several directions for future research on platform urbanism, specifically: a.) the need to critically investigate new power geometries of corporate, legal and regulatory alignments b.) how platform urbanism may be expressed in, and affect, cities in the Global South c.) how it may need to be critically engaged with in regard to its development in response to emergent events such as the Covid-19 pandemic and d.) how it may shape visions of the current and future city. We offer a typological framework for a better conceptualization of platform urbanism and its complex socio-economic relationships. In the paper, we argue that platform urbanism is an evolution of the smart city, constituted by novel, digitally-enabled socio-technical assemblages that enable new forms of social, economic and political intermediation. ![]() Platform urbanism has emerged in recent years as an area of research into the ways in which digital platforms are increasingly central to the governance, economy, experience, and understanding of the city. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |