This book is an essential primer for platform urbanism providing a comprehensive overview of how platformed apps are reshaping the organisation and operation of city services across the globe. Written by leading experts, the chapters provide illuminating conceptual and empirical insights into how platforms are reconfiguring urban economics, raising concerns regarding governance, citizenship and inequalities, and remediating community and place-making. -- Rob Kitchin, Maynooth University, Ireland This is an indispensable volume for everyone seeking to learn more about the variegated ways in which digital platforms have become entangled with cities and urban life. Wide in their scope, diverse in their methodologies, and deeply researched, the contributions in this Handbook reflect a field in the making while also setting new research agendas. Highly recommended! -- Niels van Doorn, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands This book is an essential primer for platform urbanism providing a comprehensive overview of how platformed apps are reshaping the organisation and operation of city services across the globe. Written by leading experts, the chapters provide illuminating conceptual and empirical insights into how platforms are reconfiguring urban economics, raising concerns regarding governance, citizenship and inequalities, and remediating community and place-making. -- Rob Kitchin, Maynooth University, Ireland An indispensable roadmap to the platform citywide-ranging, critical, and hopeful. This Handbook shows how digital platforms are reshaping urban life and what we can do about it. -- Mark Graham, University of Oxford, UK