Platformization of Urban Life: Towards a Technocapitalist Transformation of European Cities 9783839459645

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Anke Strüver, Sybille Bauriedl (eds.) Platformization of Urban Life

Urban Studies

Anke Strüver is a professor of human geography with a focus on urban studies at the University of Graz (Austria). In 2004 she completed her PhD at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen (Netherlands) on the socio-cultural production of cross-border spaces and their effects on everyday practices. Her research focuses on embodied human-environment relations in the city, especially along the themes of health, food, and active mobility, as well as digitalization and sustainable co-laboration. Sybille Bauriedl is a professor of integrative geography at Europa-Universität Flensburg (Germany). She has been researching and teaching sustainable urban development and global environmental conflicts since the 1990s. She is engaged in scientific networks of political ecology and feminist geography and is involved in the right to the city movement. Current research projects deal with local energy transition, smart urbanism, colonial infrastructure in European port cities, and climate justice.

Anke Strüver, Sybille Bauriedl (eds.)

Platformization of Urban Life Towards a Technocapitalist Transformation of European Cities

The publication of this book was supported by Elisabeth List Fellowship Program for Gender Research at the University of Graz.

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First published in 2022 by transcript Verlag, Bielefeld © Anke Strüver, Sybille Bauriedl (eds.) Cover layout: Maria Arndt, Bielefeld Copy-editing: Mariëlle S. Smith Proofread: Vivien Breinbauer Printed by Majuskel Medienproduktion GmbH, Wetzlar Print-ISBN 978-3-8376-5964-1 PDF-ISBN 978-3-8394-5964-5 https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839459645 ISSN of series: 2747-3619 eISSN of series: 2747-3635 Printed on permanent acid-free text paper.

Contents

THANK YOU! ..................................................................... 9 Platformized Cities and Urban Life An Introduction Sybille Bauriedl & Anke Strüver ...................................................... 11

CONDITIONS OF PLATFORMIZATION OF URBAN LIFE Platforms Becoming Infrastructural? Mapping Socio-Spatial Transformations Rabea Berfelde & Vicky Kluzik ...................................................... 39

From Smart to Platform Urbanism to Platform Municipalism Planning Ideas for Platforms in Toronto and Vienna Astrid Krisch ....................................................................... 53

The Politics of Geodata in Urban Platform Capitalism Boris Michel & Susanne Schröder-Bergen ........................................... 73

Looking for Glitches in Mobility Platforms Henk Wiechers ..................................................................... 85

PLATFORM-MEDIATED CARE-WORK IN CITIES Platform Care as Care Fix Emma Dowling .................................................................... 103

Second Shift 2.0 Intensifying Housework in Platform Urbanism Maartje Roelofsen & Kiley Goyette .................................................. 119

“When Clean Angels Calls, I Run” Working Conditions of a Gigified Care-Worker Marisol Keller ..................................................................... 135

Platforms for Basic Needs Rethinking their Infrastructuralization as Reflective of Elsewhere Christiane Tristl & Anke Strüver ................................................... 149

SPATIAL AND SOCIAL EFFECTS OF PLATFORMIZATION #FairDelivery? Potential for and Limits to Alternative Platformization Yannick Ecker...................................................................... 171

Riders United Will Never Be Divided? A Cautionary Tale of Disrupting the Platformization of Urban Space Barbara Orth ...................................................................... 185

“Processed Food on the Urban Data Highway. Food Delivery Services as In_Visible Infrastructure in the Production of Urbanity”