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The Platform Economy and the Smart CityTechnology and the Transformation of Urban Policy |
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Examining the challenges and opportunities technological platforms provide for ever-evolving urban spaces.
Over the past decade, cities have come into closer contact and conflict with new technologies. From reactive policymaking in response to platform economy firms to proactive policymaking in an effort to develop into smart cities, urban governance is transforming at an unprecedented speed and scale.
Innovative technologies promise a brave new world of convenience and cost effectiveness - powered by cameras that monitor our movements, sensors that line our streets, and algorithms that determine our resource allocation - but at what cost? Exploring the relationship between technology and cities, this book brings together an outstanding group of authors in the field to provide a critical and necessary examination of the disruption that is under way. They look at how cities should understand and regulate novel technologies, what can be learned from proposed and failed smart city projects, and how innovative economies change the structure of cities themselves. Contributors dig deeply into these and similar subjects, contributing their voices to an important dialogue on the future of urban policy and governance.
The first collection of its kind, this groundbreaking volume brings together social, economic, and cultural insights to enhance our understanding of the ongoing technological upheaval in cities around the world.
Innovative technologies promise a brave new world of convenience and cost effectiveness - powered by cameras that monitor our movements, sensors that line our streets, and algorithms that determine our resource allocation - but at what cost? Exploring the relationship between technology and cities, this book brings together an outstanding group of authors in the field to provide a critical and necessary examination of the disruption that is under way. They look at how cities should understand and regulate novel technologies, what can be learned from proposed and failed smart city projects, and how innovative economies change the structure of cities themselves. Contributors dig deeply into these and similar subjects, contributing their voices to an important dialogue on the future of urban policy and governance.
The first collection of its kind, this groundbreaking volume brings together social, economic, and cultural insights to enhance our understanding of the ongoing technological upheaval in cities around the world.
Details
Part of the McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance (number 15 in series)
352 Pages, 6 x 9
13 diagrams, 10 tables
ISBN 9780228006749
September 2021
Formats: Cloth, Paperback, eBook
"The Platform Economy and the Smart City is an important reference work for practitioners and researchers interested in how technology platforms are reshaping cities and how city governments are responding to these challenges, either oppositionally or by embracing technology to become 'smart cities.' The book does an admirable job of highlighting the benefits, risks, and negative impacts of technological change and policy shifts." Zack Taylor, University of Western Ontario and author of Shaping the Metropolis: Institutions and Urbanization in the United States and Canada
Austin Zwick is assistant teaching professor and assistant director of the Policy Studies undergraduate program at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.
Zachary Spicer is director of research and outreach with the Institute of Public Administration of Canada.
Zachary Spicer is director of research and outreach with the Institute of Public Administration of Canada.
Figures and Tables ix
Acknowledgments xi
1 Introduction 3
Austin Zwick, Zachary Spicer, and Kate Alexis Abogado
MANAGING PLATFORMS
2 Mobilizing the Platform Economy: Regulating Short-Term Rentals in Toronto 15
Sean Grisdale
3 Who’s the Boss? The Impact of Digitally Mediated Employment on Labour Markets and the Nature of Work 45
Andrew Wolf
4 Ride-Hailing Platforms Are Shaping the Future of Mobility, but for Whom? 84
Mischa Young and Steven Farber
5 Disrupting Stuff: Material Flows in the Platform City 108
Clarence Woudsma
GOVERNING PLATFORMS
6 Ride Hailing in Canadian Cities 129
Shauna Brail
7 Taking Kingston for a Regulatory Ride? Uber’s Entrance into Kingston, Ontario 147
Betsy Donald and Morgan Sage, with Anna Moroz
8 A New Public-Private Partnership for the Platform Age? Uber as Public Transit 165
Zachary Spicer
9 Regulatory Paradigms for the Coming Age of Autonomous Vehicles 188
Austin Zwick and Eamonn Dundon
CITIES AS PLATFORMS
10 The Promise and the Peril of the Smart City 213
Maxwell Hartt, Austin Zwick, and Brian Webb
11 Seeing the City as a Platform: Is Canada’s Smart Cities Challenge a Good Step in That Direction? 229
Pamela Robinson and Jeff Biggar
12 A Smart City for Toronto: What Does Quayside Tell Us about the State of Smart City Building? 249
Zachary Spicer and Austin Zwick
13 From Processors to Platforms: Innovation and the Changing Nature of Space 266
Nathan Stewart, Austin Zwick, and Eamonn Dundon
14 Conclusion 299
Zachary Spicer and Austin Zwick
Contributors 311
Index 315
Acknowledgments xi
1 Introduction 3
Austin Zwick, Zachary Spicer, and Kate Alexis Abogado
MANAGING PLATFORMS
2 Mobilizing the Platform Economy: Regulating Short-Term Rentals in Toronto 15
Sean Grisdale
3 Who’s the Boss? The Impact of Digitally Mediated Employment on Labour Markets and the Nature of Work 45
Andrew Wolf
4 Ride-Hailing Platforms Are Shaping the Future of Mobility, but for Whom? 84
Mischa Young and Steven Farber
5 Disrupting Stuff: Material Flows in the Platform City 108
Clarence Woudsma
GOVERNING PLATFORMS
6 Ride Hailing in Canadian Cities 129
Shauna Brail
7 Taking Kingston for a Regulatory Ride? Uber’s Entrance into Kingston, Ontario 147
Betsy Donald and Morgan Sage, with Anna Moroz
8 A New Public-Private Partnership for the Platform Age? Uber as Public Transit 165
Zachary Spicer
9 Regulatory Paradigms for the Coming Age of Autonomous Vehicles 188
Austin Zwick and Eamonn Dundon
CITIES AS PLATFORMS
10 The Promise and the Peril of the Smart City 213
Maxwell Hartt, Austin Zwick, and Brian Webb
11 Seeing the City as a Platform: Is Canada’s Smart Cities Challenge a Good Step in That Direction? 229
Pamela Robinson and Jeff Biggar
12 A Smart City for Toronto: What Does Quayside Tell Us about the State of Smart City Building? 249
Zachary Spicer and Austin Zwick
13 From Processors to Platforms: Innovation and the Changing Nature of Space 266
Nathan Stewart, Austin Zwick, and Eamonn Dundon
14 Conclusion 299
Zachary Spicer and Austin Zwick
Contributors 311
Index 315
