Cities are seen as one of the leading forces in making our societies sustainable and
resource efficient. The latest trends of sharing homes, cars, bicycles, tools and other goods
are fast entering our urban lives. The sharing economy is a consumption-production mode in
a city, in which value is generated through transactions between peers or organisations that
offer access to their idling or underutilised rivalrous physical assets. These assets are made
available to individuals in processes often mediated by online platforms (Mont, Voytenko …

Cities are seen as one of the leading forces in making our societies sustainable and
resource efficient. The latest trends of sharing homes, cars, bicycles, tools and other goods
are fast entering our urban lives. The sharing economy is a consumption-production mode in
a city, in which value is generated through transactions between peers or organisations that
offer access to their idling or underutilised rivalrous physical assets. These assets are made
available to individuals in processes often mediated by online platforms (Mont, Voytenko …