Sharing Cities: A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities

by Duncan McLaren and Julian Agyeman

Book Overview

How cities can build on the "sharing economy" and smart technology to deliver a "sharing paradigm" that supports justice, solidarity, and sustainability. The future of humanity is urban, and the nature of urban space enables, and necessitates, sharing -- of resources, goods and services, experiences. Yet traditional forms of sharing have been undermined in modern cities by social fragmentation and commercialization of the public realm. In Sharing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262029723
• ISBN13: 9780262029728
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher