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Platform Urbanism: Technocapitalist Production of Private and Public Spaces
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Abstract
Digital technologies and services are increasingly used to meet a wide range of urban challenges. These developments bear the risk that the urban digital transformation will exacerbate already existing socio-spatial inequalities. Graham's assumption from nearly 20 years ago (2002) - that European ci... view more
Digital technologies and services are increasingly used to meet a wide range of urban challenges. These developments bear the risk that the urban digital transformation will exacerbate already existing socio-spatial inequalities. Graham's assumption from nearly 20 years ago (2002) - that European cities are characterised by various forms of socio-spatial segregation, which will not be overcome by digital infrastructures - thus needs to be seriously acknowledged. This contribution critically scrutinizes the dominant narratives and materializations of standardised smart urbanism in Europe. We investigate how the prospects of improved efficiency, availability, accessibility and quality of life through digital technologies and networks take the demands and effects of the gendered division of labour into account. By zooming in on platform urbanism and examples related to mobility and care infrastructures, we discuss whether and to what extent digital technologies and services address the everyday needs of all people and in the same way or whether there are exclusionary lines. Our objective is to bring digital and feminist geographies into dialogue, to stress the mutual construction of society and space by platform economies and to ask how gendered geographies in cities are produced through and by digitalisation.... view less
Classification
Area Development Planning, Regional Research
Free Keywords
care; digital divide; digital technologies; gender; mobility; platform urbanism; public-private; smart city; socio-spatial
Document language
English
Publication Year
2020
Page/Pages
p. 267-276
Journal
Urban Planning, 5 (2020) 4
Issue topic
Digital Geographies and the City
ISSN
2183-7635
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed