Category: Sharing data

The sharing economy and the future of movement in smart, human-scaled cities

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Excerpt from article:

What we’ll do in the neighbourhoods of the future

As we increasingly work remotely from within our homes or by travelling far away from them, less of us work in jobs and for businesses that are physically located within the communities in which we live; and some of the economic ties that have bound those communities in the past have weakened. But most of us still feel strong ties to the places we live in; whether they are historical, created by the character of our homes or their surrounding environment, or by the culture and people around us. These ties create a shared incentive to invest in our community.

Perhaps the greatest potential of social media that we’re only begin to exploit is its power to create more vibrant, sustainable and resilient local communities through the “sharing economy”.

For the whole article, please see: http://theurbantechnologist.com/2013/11/12/the-sharing-economy-and-the-future-of-movement-in-smart-human-scale-cities/

Sharing Cities Briefing by Friends of the Earth

Agyeman et al. (2013). Sharing cities

This paper highlights the importance of the shared public realm in the history and development, and more recently, in the re-imagining of politics. We argue that the neoliberal, hegemonic model of development in the modern world prioritises private interests at the cost of shared interests. Instead, we suggest that a cultural rebalancing is overdue: one that gives much greater recognition and credit to the shared public realm in our cities (both physical and metaphorical); one that supports a revival of ‘conventional’ sharing – namely of the city as a whole as shared space – as well as a blossoming of novel forms of sharing; and one that recognises and affirms the ways in which the opportunities afforded to individuals in cities are founded on the collective efforts and actions of whole communities.

To demonstrate the opportunity in sharing, after a brief consideration of the historical roots and development of sharing, this paper explores four key questions:

  • what is currently – or could be – shared;
  • why is sharing desirable;
  • what enables and drives sharing; and
  • what opportunities are there to both enhance sharing and overcome barriers to it?