Urban Governance and There Is No Sharing Economy in the Smart City: Rethinking Structure-Agent Relationships

Authors

  • Kritsada Theerakosonphong Ph.D. Student, Public Administration Program in Public Policy and Public Management, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Mahidol University. Nakhon Pathom

Keywords:

Urban Governance, Sharing Economy, Smart City, Platform Economy, Informality

Abstract

This article discusses the main arguments in concepts of urban governance and sharing economy, who have assumed the smart city that is not an opportunity employment for marginalized groups and low-income people. Then, the platform economy is facilities and accesses to digital infrastructures in living people, but they have to face precarious employment. Meanwhile, the smart city ignores to informal economy and led to reproduced inequalities of neoliberal doctrines. Therefore, traditional occupations of informal workers, such as motorcycle taxi drivers and street vendors, who confronted with power relations affect limited to formalization and distributed fair resource allocation for diverse actors. Furthermore, urbanization should be considering human-centred development rather than objects or physical structures.

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Theerakosonphong, Kritsada. 2019. “Urban Governance and There Is No Sharing Economy in the Smart City: Rethinking Structure-Agent Relationships”. Social Sciences Academic Journal, Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University 31 (2):10-55. https://so04.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/jss/article/view/222848.