Sharing Space: Urban Sharing, Sharing a Living Space, and Shared Social Spaces
Abstract
Although sharing city is by definition a “place-based” approach to understand sharing activities, and despite the fact that spatial proximity and configuration can affect the formation of sharing practices, neither the impacts of sharing activities on space nor the different spatial attributes, which in turn condition sharing activities and behaviors, have been adequately explicated. In this article, the sociospatial dimensions of sharing space are encapsulated through the following three vectors on different spatial scales—namely, urban sharing, sharing a living space, and shared social spaces—and described through the case examples of the dockless bikeshare program, sharing a domestic space, and the coworking space and hackerspace, respectively. These vectors are then framed as the contours of a general theory of sharing spaces.
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Jeffrey Kok Hui Chan is an assistant professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design. He is also the author of Urban Ethics in the Anthropocene (2019) and has published widely in the fields of urban planning, design and technology.
Ye Zhang is an assistant professor at the Department of Architecture, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore. His research interests reside in urban form and emerging sharing practices in the city. He is also the founder of NUS-Tsinghua Design Research Initiative, Sharing Cities.
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