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Platformization of Urban Life
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27 September 2022

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.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
THANK YOU! 9
Platformized Cities and Urban Life 11
Platforms Becoming Infrastructural? 37
From Smart to Platform Urbanism to Platform Municipalism 53
The Politics of Geodata in Urban Platform Capitalism 73
Looking for Glitches in Mobility Platforms 85
Platform Care as Care Fix 101
Second Shift 2.0 119
"When Clean Angels Calls, I Run" 135
Platforms for Basic Needs 149