Krisch, A. (2022). From Smart to Platform Urbanism to Platform Municipalism. In A. Strüver & S. Bauriedl (Eds.), Platformization of Urban Life (pp. 53–72). transcript. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839459645-004
Platform Municipalism; Discursive Institutionalism; Digital Infrastuctures; Toronto; Vienna
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Abstract:
This chapter critically reflects on the origins and developments of recent currents in academic literature dealing with technology-led urban development and planning. It shows, how planning ideas over the last 30 years have changed the mode of institutionalizing platforms within urban politics and planning. From smart to platform urbanism to platform municipalism, this contribution unveils the values, programmatic ideas, and policies that these different planning ideas incorporate. Using Vienna and Toronto as two examples of different institutionalization processes of platforms for urban planning agendas, the chapter embeds the concept of platform municipalism as a progressive approach to platform development into wider debates on smart and platform urbanism to look beyond a techno-dystopian vision of urban futures and carve out the scope for action for urban governance in the digital age.
