The platform economy and the smart city : technology and the transformation of urban policy /
The platform economy and the smart city : technology and the transformation of urban policy /
edited by Austin Zwick and Zachary Spicer.
- x, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- McGill-Queen's studies in urban governance ; 15 .
- McGill-Queen's studies in urban governance ; 15. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
MANAGING PLATFORMS -- Mobilizing the Platform Economy: Regulating Short-Term Rentals in Toronto / Who's the Boss? The Impact of Digitally Mediated Employment on Labour Markets and the Nature of Work / Ride-Hailing Platforms Are Shaping the Future of Mobility, but for Whom? / Disrupting Stuff: Material Flows in the Platform City / GOVERNING PLATFORMS -- Ride Hailing in Canadian Cities / Taking Kingston for a Regulatory Ride? Uber's Entrance into Kingston, Ontario / New Public-Private Partnership for the Platform Age? Uber as Public Transit / Regulatory Paradigms for the Coming Age of Autonomous Vehicles / CITIES AS PLATFORMS -- Promise and the Peril of the Smart City / Seeing the City as a Platform: Is Canada's Smart Cities Challenge a Good Step in That Direction? / A Smart City for Toronto: What Does Quayside Tell Us about the State of Smart City Building? / From Processors to Platforms: Innovation and the Changing Nature of Space / Austin Zwick, Zachary Spicer, and Kate Alexis Abogado -- Sean Grisdale -- Andrew Wolf -- Mischa Young and Steven Farber -- Clarence Woudsma -- Shauna Brail -- Betsy Donald and Morgan Sage, with Anna Moroz -- Zachary Spicer -- Austin Zwick and Eamonn Dundon -- Maxwell Hartt, Austin Zwick, and Brian Webb -- Pamela Robinson and Jeff Biggar -- Zachary Spicer and Austin Zwick -- Nathan Stewart, Austin Zwick, and Eamonn Dundon -- Zachary Spicer and Austin Zwick. Introduction / Conclusion /
"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."--
English
0228006732 9780228006732 0228006740 9780228006749
2021386545
20210197102 can GBC1B3587 bnb
020264448 Uk
Smart cities.
Cities and towns--Effect of technological innovations on.
Gig economy.
Disruptive technologies.
Technology--Social aspects.
Urban policy.
Villes intelligentes.
Villes--Effets des innovations sur.
Économie à la demande.
Technologie de rupture.
Politique urbaine.
Gig economy.
Cities and towns--Effect of technological innovations on.
Disruptive technologies.
Smart cities.
Technology--Social aspects.
Urban policy.
307.76 ZWI
Includes bibliographical references and index.
MANAGING PLATFORMS -- Mobilizing the Platform Economy: Regulating Short-Term Rentals in Toronto / Who's the Boss? The Impact of Digitally Mediated Employment on Labour Markets and the Nature of Work / Ride-Hailing Platforms Are Shaping the Future of Mobility, but for Whom? / Disrupting Stuff: Material Flows in the Platform City / GOVERNING PLATFORMS -- Ride Hailing in Canadian Cities / Taking Kingston for a Regulatory Ride? Uber's Entrance into Kingston, Ontario / New Public-Private Partnership for the Platform Age? Uber as Public Transit / Regulatory Paradigms for the Coming Age of Autonomous Vehicles / CITIES AS PLATFORMS -- Promise and the Peril of the Smart City / Seeing the City as a Platform: Is Canada's Smart Cities Challenge a Good Step in That Direction? / A Smart City for Toronto: What Does Quayside Tell Us about the State of Smart City Building? / From Processors to Platforms: Innovation and the Changing Nature of Space / Austin Zwick, Zachary Spicer, and Kate Alexis Abogado -- Sean Grisdale -- Andrew Wolf -- Mischa Young and Steven Farber -- Clarence Woudsma -- Shauna Brail -- Betsy Donald and Morgan Sage, with Anna Moroz -- Zachary Spicer -- Austin Zwick and Eamonn Dundon -- Maxwell Hartt, Austin Zwick, and Brian Webb -- Pamela Robinson and Jeff Biggar -- Zachary Spicer and Austin Zwick -- Nathan Stewart, Austin Zwick, and Eamonn Dundon -- Zachary Spicer and Austin Zwick. Introduction / Conclusion /
"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."--
English
0228006732 9780228006732 0228006740 9780228006749
2021386545
20210197102 can GBC1B3587 bnb
020264448 Uk
Smart cities.
Cities and towns--Effect of technological innovations on.
Gig economy.
Disruptive technologies.
Technology--Social aspects.
Urban policy.
Villes intelligentes.
Villes--Effets des innovations sur.
Économie à la demande.
Technologie de rupture.
Politique urbaine.
Gig economy.
Cities and towns--Effect of technological innovations on.
Disruptive technologies.
Smart cities.
Technology--Social aspects.
Urban policy.
307.76 ZWI