The UrbanSharing project has gathered unique international empirical evidence about the design and operations of USOs across five cities. The team conducted over 250 interviews, collected rich data through observations and mobile research labs and organised 9 workshops with academics and practitioners in the cities.
The Urban Sharing team co-organised the 8th International Workshop on the Sharing Economy in Vienna that took place on 22-23 May 2023 (in collaboration with the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, and Vienna University of Economics and Business). This was the final conference for the project, and the Urban Sharing team was featured in many sessions. Based on the outcomes of the 8th International Workshop on the Sharing Economy, a call for a special issue, “Reimaging Sharing Economy” of the Journal of Cleaner Production.
Overall, the Urban Sharing team co-organised and contributed to three edited volumes on the sharing economy. The first edited volume was a Special Issue of the Journal of Cleaner Production, “A decade of the sharing economy”. The second is the ongoing call for a special issue of the Journal of Cleaner Production, “Reimaging Sharing Economy”. The third edited volume is an upcoming book by Edward Elgar called “Understanding the Urban Sharing Economy: Sustainability and Institutionalisation” to be published in 2024.
The Urban Sharing project produced 106 academic publications, stakeholder reports, city snapshots, videos and media articles. In particular, we published 17 articles, 8 book chapters, 3 PhD dissertations, more than 40 conference papers, and presentations. The frameworks and insights developed through the project are now being used to shape more sustainable and equitable sharing economy policies. For example, the City of Kalmar, Sweden, has used the municipal governance framework of the sharing economy to develop the Handbook for the Sharing Economy for municipalities in Sweden. The series of six films that discuss the five municipal governance mechanisms of the sharing economy constitute the core of the Massive Open Online Course on Sharing Cities (
https://www.coursera.org/learn/sharing-cities(se abrirá en una nueva ventana)) with over 7700 global learners as of September 2023.
The project had a website till October 30, 2023: urbansharing.org featuring a vibrant blog, publications and news feed.
