Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Austin Zwick, Zachary Spicer, and Kate Alexis Abogado -- MANAGING PLATFORMS -- Mobilizing the Platform Economy: Regulating Short-Term Rentals in Toronto / Sean Grisdale -- Who's the Boss? The Impact of Digitally Mediated Employment on Labour Markets and the Nature of Work / Andrew Wolf -- Ride-Hailing Platforms Are Shaping the Future of Mobility, but for Whom? / Mischa Young and Steven Farber -- Disrupting Stuff: Material Flows in the Platform City / Clarence Woudsma -- GOVERNING PLATFORMS -- Ride Hailing in Canadian Cities / Shauna Brail -- Taking Kingston for a Regulatory Ride? Uber's Entrance into Kingston, Ontario / Betsy Donald and Morgan Sage, with Anna Moroz -- New Public-Private Partnership for the Platform Age? Uber as Public Transit / Zachary Spicer -- Regulatory Paradigms for the Coming Age of Autonomous Vehicles / Austin Zwick and Eamonn Dundon -- CITIES AS PLATFORMS -- Promise and the Peril of the Smart City / Maxwell Hartt, Austin Zwick, and Brian Webb -- Seeing the City as a Platform: Is Canada's Smart Cities Challenge a Good Step in That Direction? / Pamela Robinson and Jeff Biggar -- A Smart City for Toronto: What Does Quayside Tell Us about the State of Smart City Building? / Zachary Spicer and Austin Zwick -- From Processors to Platforms: Innovation and the Changing Nature of Space / Nathan Stewart, Austin Zwick, and Eamonn Dundon -- Conclusion / Zachary Spicer and Austin Zwick.

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Issued also in electronic format.

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