A Modern Guide to the Urban Sharing Economy

Elgar Modern Guides

Edited by Thomas Sigler, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography and Jonathan Corcoran, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Queensland, Australia

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.

‘Spanning multiple disciplines and continents, A Modern Guide to the Urban Sharing Economy documents how sharing platforms transform mobility, space and our relationship with things. How platforms are regulated will determine whether “sharing” delivers community, prosperity and sustainability; or exclusion, precarity and hyper-extraction. Regulation requires a map. Here it is.’
– Matthew David, Durham University, UK

‘Sharing began in the family and community and has been critical to human survival. Some of this ethos remains, despite monetization of many of our sharable resources. What are the broad effects of “a sharing app life”? This guide brings together a wonderfully diverse set of minds to offer answers.’
– Russell W. Belk, York University, Canada