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Cities are seen as one of the leading forces in making our societies sustainable and resource efficient. The latest trends of sharing homes, cars, bikes, tools and other goods are fast entering our urban lives. The sharing economy is a consumption-production mode in a city, in which value is generated through transactions between peers or organisations that offer access to their idling or underutilised rivalrous physical assets. These assets are made available to individuals in processes often mediated by online platforms (Mont, Voytenko Palgan, and Zvolska 2019).Examples of sharing economy organisations (SEOs) include bicycle and car sharing initiatives, tool and clothes libraries, and short-term accommodation rentals between peers. The activities of SEOs are often cited as solutions to urban sustainability challenges, but their contribution to sustainability, resource efficiency and the circular economy has not been systematically evaluated. To build up an evidence base, and support sustainable sharing, a systematic and comparative analysis of the role of cities in sharing is needed. This report presents the outcomes of a one-day mobile lab on urban sharing in Malmö, which was arranged on 7 March 2018 within the framework of the Sharing and the City project, with support from the Sharing Cities Sweden programme and the Urban Reconomy project. A mobile lab is a collaborative process of conducting in-situ analysis by a research team that allows analysis of the study object, the sharing economy, in its context. Sharing in cities becomes institutionalised through two principal sets of dynamic processes. The first is a top-down institutionalisation dynamic when a city government employs its agency to promote or inhibit certain SEOs. To do so, it undertakes one or several of the following roles: regulator, provider, enabler and self-governor. The second set of institutionalisation processes of sharing in cities is bottom-up, resulting from institutional work by SEOs. These two sets of institutionalisation processes ...

The work in this dossier emerges from an interdisciplinary collaboration on the topic of 'The New Urban Citizen', which brought researchers in Urban Studies, Planning, Scandinavian Studies, and Architecture at UCL and Malmö University together for two symposia in November 2015 (London) and in April 2016 (Malmö). At the gatherings, scholars discussed topics relating to the new urban citizen's role in transforming the welfare state, participatory urban citizenship, of discourses and spatialities of social disintegration and cohesion. These exchanges grew into the articles presented in this theme issue. In this issue, Hoai Anh Tran and Yvonne Rydin present a discourse analysis of the planning document or 'vision programme' for Norra Sorgenfri, Jorge Martín Sainz de los Terreros examines Malmö in a photo essay and critical visual ethnography, while Berndt Clavier and Asko Kauppinen discuss the technologies of governmentality in localised art projects supported by the state.