Urban reconfiguration after the emergence of P2P infrastructures

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Full title: “Urban reconfiguration after the emergence of peer-to-peer infrastructures: Four future scenarios with an impact on smart cities“, co-authored by Vasilis Kostakis, Michel Bauwens & Vasilis Niaros.

Summary: While peer-to-peer (P2P) infrastructures seem to embrace more and more aspects of human activities, conflicts are taking place on the control and uses of the new means of production. Within this context this essay attempts to tentatively introduce four future scenarios for economy and society, namely, netarchical capitalism, distributed capitalism, resilient communities and global commons, and explore the possible evolution of smart cities in each of these contexts. We conclude that certain P2P-driven models can allow profit making without profit maximizing, as an alternative to the capital accumulation, while enabling knowledge and innovation diffusion and true citizen engagement.

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