Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: When digital became platform -- Chapter 3: City reverberations -- Chapter 4: The Uberisation of Everything -- Chapter 5: Making sense of platform intermediation -- Chapter 6: Platform intermediation as recombinatory urban governance -- Chapter 7: Intimate entanglements -- Chapter 8: City bricolage: Imagining the city as a platform -- Chapter 9: Conclusion: Rethinking public value in an era of platform scale.
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