A modern guide to the urban sharing economy / edited by Thomas Sigler and Jonathan Corcoran.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Sigler, Thomas, editor.

Corcoran, Jonathan (Jonathan J.), editor.

Series:

Elgar Modern Guides

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban economics.

Gig economy.

Cooperation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, England ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2021]

Summary:

Providing a comprehensive overview of the urban sharing economy, this Modern Guide takes a forward-looking perspective on how sharing goods and services may facilitate future sustainability of consumption and production. It highlights recent developments and issues, with cutting-edge discussions from leading international scholars in business, engineering, environmental management, geography, law, planning, sociology and transport studies.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Contents

Contributors

PART I Introduction

1. Introduction to A Modern Guide to the Urban Sharing Economy

PART II Understanding the sharing economy

2. What is the sharing economy? Origins and precedents

3. Regulating the urban sharing economy

4. The identity crisis of 'sharing': from the co-op economy to the urban sharing economy phenomenon

5. Overcoming scarcity through efficient consumption: innovative sharing initiatives

PART III Sharing spaces and places

6. Short-term rental platforms: home-sharing or sharewashed neoliberalism?

7. Parking policy and bay-sharing for unmooring automobility from cities

8. The impact and regulatory issues of Airbnb in a mid-sized city: Valencia (Spain)

9. Sharing office spaces: coworking spaces from grassroots initiatives to globalised shared-office companies

PART IV Sharing transport

10. Bicycle sharing in cities

11. Bike sharing and ride-hailing in Chinese cities

12. Shared micromobility: policy and practices in the United States

13. Street smart technology: Gojek as urban infrastructure

14. A spatiotemporal approach to micromobility

15. The environmental implications of car-sharing

PART V Sharing things

16. Urban food sharing

17. The role of tool libraries in the new economy: sharing in an economic degrowth society

18. Clothes sharing in cities: the case of fashion leasing

19. The intricate relationship between music and the sharing economy

PART VI Challenges and future prospects

20. Discrimination in the urban sharing economy

21. The sharing economy or the erring economy? How the law of amplification brings out the best and the worst in platform-based technologies

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78990-956-2