Exploring Platform Urbanism Using Counter-Mapping: Opening the Black Box (BestMasters)

Weissenrieder, Daniel

ISBN 10: 365840647X / ISBN 13: 9783658406479

Published by Springer VS, 2023

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Exploring Platform Urbanism Using Counter-Mapping: Opening the Black Box (BestMasters)
• Publisher: Springer VS
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 365840647X
• ISBN 13: 9783658406479
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

In recent years, the world witnessed the rise of big digital platforms like Amazon, Airbnb, and Uber. The emerging research field of platform urbanism focuses on these developments and concentrates on platforms and their impact on everyday life in urban space. This book introduces a novel approach to the problems of accessibility and opacity in this area of research. In order to explore the black box platform urbanism more thoroughly, different participatory mapping approaches of critical cartography are examined. The potential of so-called counter-mapping practices and related approaches for a deeper exploration of platform urbanism is discussed. The author thus establishes the nexus between participatory mapping approaches of critical cartography and their application potential for platform urbanism and provides numerous starting points for future research.

About the Author

Daniel Weissenrieder received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Human Geography from Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. He then completed his Master of Arts in Human Geography - Global Studies at the University of Tübingen.