Sharing Cities - A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities

摘要

The notion of sharing is something we encourage in our children even though it is antithetical to the leisure shopping, celebrity reverence, money-worshipping society in which we live. Recent incarnations of the term sharing are here argued to have been subtended too narrowly. McLaren and Agye-man make the case for implementing a wider and deeper social, cultural, economic and political understanding to overcome the apparent shortcomings of the more disjointed and commercial notion of sharing that we increasingly encounter: 'consumerism discourages trust and empathy'.