1st Edition

Sharing Mobilities Questioning Our Right to the City in the Collaborative Economy

By Davide Arcidiacono, Mike Duggan Copyright 2020
144 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

144 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

144 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines contemporary urban sharing mobilities, such as shared and public forms of everyday urban mobility. Tracing the social and economic history of sharing mobilities and examining contemporary case studies of mobility sharing services, such as Car2go, BlaBlaCar, and Uber, the authors raise questions about what these changes mean for access to and engagement with the public spaces of... Read more

Foreword by Juliet B. SchorAcknowledegments;  1. Welcome to the age of sharing;  2. The successes and failures of shared urban mobility;  3. Sharing mobility, mobility justice, and the right to the city;  4. Regulation, platform governance, and the labour practices of shared urban mobility;  5. Empowering connections: relations, collaborations, and community in sharing mobility;  6. Conclusion

Biography

Davide Arcidiacono is a researcher in Economic Sociology at the University of Catania, Italy. His research focuses on the issues of digital transformation and the sharing and platform economy.



Mike Duggan is a teaching fellow in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London, UK. His research focuses on the intersections between digital technologies and everyday cultures of practice.