Richardson, L. (2020) Coordinating the city: platforms as flexible spatial arrangements. Urban Geography, 41 (3). pp. 458-461. ISSN 0272-3638
Abstract
The platform is a flexible spatial arrangement that does not have a fixed territory but rather draws on other territorialized networks to actualize in urban form. The capacity for the platform to act occurs through its ability to articulate together more or less territorialized urban elements. It implies a reorganization of urban operations (such as transport, housing, and so on) not through new physical infrastructures, but instead through novel technologies of coordination of those already existing. At present, discussion of platforms in cities is dominated by the platform as company, which generates private value from the coordination of differently networked actors. However, appreciating the urban geography of the platform as a flexible spatial arrangement indicates that platforms can hold much promise for the organization of cities but requires a more equitable distribution of the value generated by coordination of urban actors.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Urban Geography. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Platforms; flexibility; agency; arrangement; urban space |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Sociological Studies (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 28 Apr 2020 16:28 |
Last Modified: | 17 Sep 2021 12:43 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Informa UK Limited |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/02723638.2020.1717027 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:160020 |