Sharing Cities: Why Ownership, Governance and The Commons Matter More Than Ever
Ballarat St permanent park providing green space for the people of Yarraville (Melbourne).
View ArticleComplete Tax and Finance Guide to Ridesharing
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View ArticleJuno to Take On Uber with Driver-owned Socially Responsible Ridesharing
While Uber continues its reign as the bad boy of ridesharing, a new company, Juno, is rethinking the ridesharing model by giving drivers ownership in the company.
View Article7 Services Expanding Mobility for Aging Americans
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View ArticleResearch Finds that Uber Complements Public Transit
New research points to something that some city-dwellers already know: that ridesharing apps, such as Lyft and Uber complement existing public transit. That is, they serve a different purpose and work...
View Article11 Platform Cooperatives Creating a Real Sharing Economy
As “death star platforms” such as Airbnb and Uber continue their pursuit of global domination, an alternative is rising in its wake.
View ArticleNo Need for Uber after the Club. In Seoul, You Hail a Vanpool for Partiers.
Uber's explosive growth is partly fueled by meeting some underserved needs including getting people home from nightclubs in the wee hours of the morning. With a shortage of cabs in many cities at that...
View ArticleNew Report: Smartphone Apps May Change Transportation More Than Expected
As you've probably noticed, smartphone apps are having a big impact on transportation. A new report, Smartphone Applications to Influence Travel Choices: Practices and Policies, by the U.S. Department...
View ArticleCan Self-Driving Cars Save Our Cities?
Can autonomous cars give us a do-over with our cities, fossil fuel dependence, affordable housing, and also workers? Robin Chase, author of Peers, Inc and co-founder of Zipcar says yes. Or at least...
View ArticleThe Impact of Ride-Sharing Apps on Jakarta’s Taxi Industry
Indonesia’s capital city Jakarta has long been known for its efficient, clean taxis. On the city’s main thoroughfares, taxis make up approximately 20-30 percent of all traffic. While the city is in...
View ArticleWhen You Don’t Have a Traditional Job, This Is How You Get Creative
Article and images cross-posted from YES! Magazine. Article and images by Martin do Nascimento.
View ArticleNew Ridesharing Alternatives Thrive After Uber Leaves Austin
There are numerous reasons to be critical of the corporate "sharing economy," which claims to democratize work and enable people to share assets. Companies like Uber, Airbnb, and Taskrabbit facilitate...
View ArticleFive (More) Reasons to #DeleteUber — And Some Ethical Alternatives
It seems like a not a month goes by without a major controversy about the San Francisco-based ride-hailing company Uber. On Feb. 19, Susan J. Fowler, a former engineer at the company, published a blog...
View ArticlePodcast: What Exactly is the Sharing Economy?
The concept of sharing isn't too complicated — we all more or less learned what it meant when we were still crawling around in sandboxes. But in this episode of Upstream, we discover that sharing can...
View ArticleTokyo's Taxi Industry Joined Forces to Resist Uber
In 2015, Uber, the ride-hailing giant based in San Francisco, California that's been threatening the existence of taxi companies and trampling over regulations in numerous cities, entered Tokyo. What...
View ArticleReflections from SXSW: Austin as a Case Study for the Future of Ride-Hailing...
As I stepped out of the Austin–Bergstrom International Airport last week, I felt the rush of anticipation as I was in the city to attend the much-hyped SXSW conference for the first time. I was invited...
View ArticleQ&A: LibreTaxi's Roman Pushkin on Why He Made a Free, Open-Source Alternative...
With all the controversy engulfing the global ride-hailing giant Uber, there is more attention on alternative platforms that meet people's transportation needs and don't have the company's ethical...
View ArticleWhy Ride-Hailing App Juno's Acquisition Points to a Need for Platform Co-ops
The New York City based ride-hailing app Juno was widely marketed as a different type of platform — one that values its drivers. The company went as far as to say that it would give equity to its...
View ArticleAustin's Ride-Hailing Saga Shows Need for More Local Empowerment
Op-Ed: Uber and Lyft are back in Austin, Texas. Both ride-hailing giants left the city last May to protest the passage of a controversial law that among other things, required fingerprint background...
View ArticleQ&A with Scholar Juliet Schor on the Striking Differences Between Nonprofit...
It's easy to group all enterprises that promote "sharing" into a single category. New technology has made it much easier for people to share almost everything — cars, houses, work spaces, just to name...
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