1st Edition
Spaces of Urban Platformisation Airbnb and Coworking in Berlin
By Rabea Berfelde
Copyright 2026
170 Pages
by
Routledge
170 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book uses Berlin as a pivotal case study to analyse the transformation of urban spaces under the combined influences of financialisation and platformisation. By examining Airbnb’s impact on housing and the development of coworking spaces, it provides a detailed exploration of how digital platforms are reshaping fundamental urban sites of production and reproduction within the broader context... Read more
1. Spatial Production as Methodology 2. From Immaterial Labour to the Extractive Nature of the Rent-Based Economy 3. The Urban Form of Financialised Capitalism 4. Airbnb’s Urbanisation in Berlin: Hosting as Labour and the Refiguration of the Home 5. Coworking and the Refiguration of the Workplace Conclusion
Biography
Rabea Berfelde is a research fellow in the Centre for Social Critique at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany.
