Abstract
This article discusses platformization and its impact on urban planning. Platformization refers to an increased utilization of platform logic in society. In urban planning, it is manifest in the emergence of digital co-production platforms. They offer a range of genuinely beneficial features—especially digitally-assisted collaborative mapping, ideation, sharing, and analytics—and facilitated integration of citizen input into democratic planning system. As such, they have a potential to develop into a new urban planning model that meets the needs of a complex late modern society.
Highlights
This article discusses the impact of platformization on urban planning
Platform logic is an aspect of the new economy that revolves around the monetization of connections and shared assets facilitated by a digital platform
Digitalization helps to gather local players but it facilitates upscaling and smartening up urban processes and, connecting urban platforms with broader socio-economic ecosystems. Such a platform urbanism forms a tensional field in which global platform providers exercise their relational power, while city governments as the instances of local democratic governance have a capacity to use their bargaining power to extract local public value from platform business due to their ability to control local resources and regulate local environment
Summary
This article discusses the impact of platformization on urban planning. The question is, to what extent we may assume that the emerging platform logic fits with the requirements of urban planning. The previous point leads us to another facet revolving around the forces or drivers behind the surge of platforms, that of digitalization that has given platform logic an extra-local nature and immense power to reach wide audiences and generate global high value-added processes, as in the cases of social networks such as Facebook, media content-sharing platforms like YouTube, and sharing economy platforms, such as Uber or Airbnb. This is a interesting issue regarding digital. How are locational and urban dimensions of urban communities conditioning the value creation within digital urban platforms?
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