Caprotti Federico, Chang I-Chun Catherine, Joss Simon
Department of Geography, University of Exeter, Mail Room, The Old Library, Prince of Wales Road, Exeter, EX4 4SB UK.
Department of Geography, Macalester College, 1600 Grand Ave, Saint Paul, MN 55105-1801 USA.
Urban Transform. 2022;4(1):4. doi: 10.1186/s42854-022-00033-9. Epub 2022 Mar 26.
Platform urbanism has emerged in recent years as an area of research into the ways in which digital platforms are increasingly central to the governance, economy, experience, and understanding of the city. In the paper, we argue that platform urbanism is an evolution of the smart city, constituted by novel, digitally-enabled socio-technical assemblages that enable new forms of social, economic and political intermediation. We offer a typological framework for a better conceptualization of platform urbanism and its complex socio-economic relationships. We further outline several directions for future research on platform urbanism, specifically: a.) the need to critically investigate new power geometries of corporate, legal and regulatory alignments; b.) how platform urbanism may be expressed in, and affect, cities in the Global South; c.) how it may need to be critically engaged with in regard to its development in response to emergent events such as the Covid-19 pandemic; and d.) how it may shape visions of the current and future city.
近年来，平台城市主义作为一个研究领域应运而生，主要探讨数字平台在城市治理、经济、体验和认知方面日益占据核心地位的方式。在本文中，我们认为平台城市主义是智慧城市的一种演进，由新型的、数字化驱动的社会技术组合构成，这些组合促成了新形式的社会、经济和政治中介。我们提供了一个类型学框架，以便更好地理解平台城市主义及其复杂的社会经济关系。我们进一步概述了平台城市主义未来研究的几个方向，具体如下：a.) 需要批判性地研究企业、法律和监管联盟的新权力格局；b.) 平台城市主义在全球南方城市中可能如何表现以及如何影响这些城市；c.) 鉴于其在应对新冠疫情等突发事件时的发展，可能需要如何批判性地参与其中；d.) 它可能如何塑造当前和未来城市的愿景。
