
Spaces of Urban Platformisation
Airbnb and Coworking in Berlin
Rabea Berfelde(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
Published on 27. May 2026
170 pages
978-1-040-93965-9 (ISBN)
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This book uses Berlin as a pivotal case study to analyse the transformation of urban spaces under the combined influences of financialisation and platformisation. By examining Airbnb's impact on housing and the development of coworking spaces, it provides a detailed exploration of how digital platforms are reshaping fundamental urban sites of production and reproduction within the broader context of post-2008 financialised capitalism. The study offers three significant contributions to the field. First, it presents a robust methodological framework for investigating financialised urbanism through spatial theory. Second, it delivers an empirical analysis of platform-mediated spatial practices at the micro level, offering concrete examples of these dynamics in action. Third, it advances theoretical understanding by situating platform urbanism within the larger processes of financialisation, highlighting the interplay between technology and real estate sectors in refiguring urban spaces and everyday practices. It does so by leveraging fieldwork from Berlin, a city uniquely suited for analysis due to its dynamic landscape of urban development and ongoing housing challenges. As such, it provides a cutting-edge and highly relevant analysis of how financial and technological forces are transforming cities, at both the structural and everyday levels. It will appeal to academics and graduate students of urban studies, human geography, sociology, and digital economy research, and particularly those working at the intersection of digital platforms and urban environments.
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English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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2,66 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-040-93965-9 (9781040939659)
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Rabea Berfelde is a research fellow in the Centre for Social Critique at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany.
Content
1. Spatial Production as Methodology 2. From Immaterial Labour to the Extractive Nature of the Rent-Based Economy 3. The Urban Form of Financialised Capitalism 4. Airbnb's Urbanisation in Berlin: Hosting as Labour and the Refiguration of the Home 5. Coworking and the Refiguration of the Workplace Conclusion
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