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Current pandemic has triggered a new wave of labour digitalisation. Platforms expanded, from smart working to urban services. In some cases, they assumed the role of essential infrastructures for [...]

This deliverable will be available on 28th February 2022.

This deliverable will be available on 28th February 2022.

Melissa Renau is a PhD candidate at Dimmons, a research group at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute of the Open University of Catalonia. Melissa’s research aims at understanding how [...]

This policy brief highlights and exemplifies some of the platforms’ specific impacts, and hints towards potential regulations at municipal, sectoral or cross-sectoral level to mitigate the lean [...]

This paper aims at opening a research space to deepen and problematize one of the main emerging concepts in urban studies, that of "planetary urbanization". In recent years, this perspective has [...]

It will consider the impact of digital technologies on urban spaces. On one side, this means how high tech giants and platform firms are establishing in urban spaces as infrastructures for data [...]

The contribution analyzes how digital platforms change urban work and life as well as the spatiality and material architecture of the city. This affects not only working conditions, but also [...]

The platform economy is growing exponentially while creating expectations for its potential to contribute to a sustainable development. However, research aimed at showing the potential [...]