Housing Under Platform Capitalism

The Contentious Regulation of Short-Term Rentals in European Cities
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-520-41808-0
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 466 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 1452 g

Reihe: IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change

Since the birth of Airbnb in 2008, many of the world's cities have been transformed by platform-mediated short-term accommodation—a phenomenon suspected of disturbing local life and removing dwellings from local housing inventories. Drawing on mixed-method, multi-level comparative research in twelve large European cities, coauthors Thomas Aguilera, Francesca Artioli, and Claire Colomb show that strikingly different regulatory regimes have emerged around short-term rentals.

In some cities, policies aim to curb this practice; in others, regulations are simply meant to support the market. These responses are motivated by a variety of political choices and pressures, from grassroots movements to property interests, the tourism industry, and municipal welfare and housing systems. This book makes a crucial contribution to comparative urban politics in the twenty-first century, investigating the capacity of local states to govern housing markets and platform capitalism in an era of globalized human and capital flows. In the face of this worldwide shift, Housing Under Platform Capitalism insists that institutions and regulations can champion the public good by protecting the right to housing and ultimately limiting corporate power.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Colomb, Claire

Aguilera, Thomas

Artioli, Francesca

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Regional- und Städtische Wirtschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

Introduction

PART I. PLATFORM CAPITALISM, SHORT-TERM RENTALS AND THEIR REGULATION: A FRAMEWORK
1. The Rise of Short-Term Rentals: Between Corporate Platforms, Tourism Flows and Housing Assetisation
2. Theorising and Researching the Regulation of Platform-Mediated Short-Term Rental Housing

PART II. VARIETIES OF REGULATORY REGIMES: THE THREE WORLDS OF STR REGULATION IN EUROPE
3. The Three Worlds of Short-Term Rental Regulation in European Cities
4. The Paths to Regulation: Emergence and Institutionalisation of Different STR Rules in Barcelona, Paris and Milan

PART III. STRUGGLING WITH COMMON CHALLENGES: IMPLEMENTATION, JUDICIALISATION AND MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCE
5. A Challenging Implementation: Regulatory Enforcement in the Digital Age
6. Platform Power, Grassroots Mobilisations and Political Clienteles
7. The Judicialisation and Transnationalisation of Local Conflicts: The European Union as a Regulatory Battleground

Conclusion: Urban Platform Capitalism, Governability and Democracy

Appendix: Note on Methods and Data Sources
Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Thomas Aguilera is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Sciences Po Rennes - University of Rennes, France.
Francesca Artioli is Assistant Professor of Spatial Planning and Urban Policies at the Université Paris-Est Créteil, France.
Claire Colomb is Professor of Land Economy (Planning, Public Policy, and Urban Studies) at the University of Cambridge, UK.