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This post was co-authored with Lauren Hirshon. Brooks Rainwater and Lauren Hirshon recently published the National League of Cities report “Cities, the Sharing Economy and What’s Next.” The sharing economy is impacting cities. 
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Many of us go about our daily lives using services like Uber, HomeAway, AirBnB, Task Rabbit, Lyft, Citi Bike (not in Dallas… but in NYC) and Zipcar. These services are the result of the sharing economy.
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February 24, 2015 1:16 PM
This article talks about the new "sharing economy" which involves people sharing accommodation and transport in exchange for money. It also talks about how walkable, attractive cites would greatly stimulate this sector and the economy in general. It seems to champion a more european city: pedestrianized and attractive, over the american model of urban sprawl. I found this article extremely informative and as an 18 year old without a car I wholeheartedly support this kind of city!
-Charles Bradbury
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You Can’t Share That! How Technology is Fueling the Sharing Economy like Ride and Home Sharing | HP You can’t share that! How technology is fueling the sharing economy by connecting peer-to-peer services such as ride and home sharing.
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"Since the declaration of Sharing City, Seoul has been one of the pioneers on city-driven sharing movement. The current mayor Won-Soon Park, whose background is from non-profit social sector, is very much eager to realize transparency and citizen engagement through sharing resources of the city.
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The sharing economy offers enormous potential to create jobs. Sharing leverages a wide variety of resources and lowers barriers to starting small businesses. Cities can lower the cost of starting businesses by supporting innovations like shared workspaces, shared commercial kitchens, community-financed start-ups, community-owned commercial centers, and spaces for “pop-up” businesses. Cities can also lower permitting barriers for home-based micro-enterprises. Sharing is also at the heart of the employment model that is designed to keep wealth and jobs in the community: cooperatives. In the age of global economics, where even money spent locally can quickly slip from local communities, fostering cooperative enterprise creates local jobs that are rooted securely in the community. Just as important, cooperative jobs are likely to be good jobs that value dignity, creativity, democracy, and fair pay. These qualities are among the reasons co-ops are widely acknowledged as being more viable, more resilient, and healthier for their communities than conventional businesses.100 Supporting the growth of cooperatively owned enterprises may be one of the most important things that a city can do to support stable, fair paying, local job creation.
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Imagine a city where everyone’s needs are met because people make the personal choice to share. Where everyone can create meaningful livelihoods. Where fresh, local food is available to all.
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This National League of Cities report seeks to provide an analysis of what is currently happening in American cities so that city leaders may better understand, encourage and regulate the growing sharing economy.
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A basic dictionary of the “Sharing Economy,” “Sharing Cities,” and communitarianism | Kosmos Journal
“Sharing” is more than a trend: for some, it is the engine of their businesses, for others, the touchstone from which to design cities to live in; for some, a way of life. But in any case, it would be good to differentiate these three environments to understand what they really represent and their limits. We must not let the good feelings and words that really mean things end up being emptied and defrauding us.
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Something about the empty driveway next to his off-campus house in Georgetown always bugged Nick Miller. But he couldn’t quite put his finger on it. Not until a trip to a Baltimore Ravens’ game took him through Federal Hill. There, driving with friends, desperate for parking, Miller saw residents holding up cardboard signs advertising spaces for rent. And it hit him. Sure, parking demand reaches naturally epic proportions on game days around M&T Bank Stadium; Miller, who grew up in Harford County, knew that. But finding convenient downtown parking in Baltimore and Washington, D.C., was always like searching for a needle in a haystack. Could digital technology, he wondered, fill those empty driveways, lots, and parking pads with actual cars in real time?
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Collaborative Consumption and The Sharing Economy: Opportunities for Cities, Organizations and Wellbeing Featuring April Rinne, Chief Strategy Officer, Colla...
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Build a Sharing Community to Unlock the Power of Cities – Nature and Environment – MOTHER EARTH NEWS
The sharing economy is moving into the mainstream. Sharing innovations old and new such as cooperatives, Sidecar, Airbnb, RelayRides and bike-sharing programs are on the rise and show that sharing resources is good for cities.
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