Sharing Cities
A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
24 February 2017
Summary
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 Cities, Duncan McLaren and Julian Agyeman argue th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262533713 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262533715 |
| Author: | Julian Agyeman, Duncan McLaren |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 24 February 2017 |
| Weight: | 632g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Urban and Industrial Environments |
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Sharing Cities is a wake-up call to policy makers, businesspeople, and community leaders: There has never been a better–or more urgent–time to build a shared urban future.
Sharing Cities is a wake-up call to policy makers, businesspeople, and community leaders: There has never been a better—or more urgent—time to build a shared urban future.
* Stanford Social Innovation Review *In Sharing Cities, environmental consultant Duncan McLaren and urban-policy scholar Julian Agyeman lay out, with impressive depth, clarity and wisdom, a comprehensive prescription for a sharing paradigm….bottom-up ventures that are digital or based in communities, rather than commercial.
* Nature *About The Author
Julian Agyeman
Duncan McLaren, former Chief Executive of Friends of the Earth Scotland, is Director of McLaren Environmental Research and Consultancy.Julian Agyeman is Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University. He is the coauthor of Sharing Cities and the coeditor of The Immigrant-Food Nexus- Borders, Labor, and Identity in North America, each published by the MIT Press.
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