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This article analyses how digital platforms challenge and redefine the way in which urban forms of citizenship are shaped. What we call 'platform urbanisation' accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic when digital platforms penetrated with increasing rapidity into every aspect of urban life. While these digital platforms have facilitated new possibilities for engagement, access to services, efficiency in processing data, and customising responses to people online and offline, they also pose political challenges related to inequality, privacy, exclusion and social polarisation. Developing a techno-political urban environment built upon inclusion, equality, and respect for the rights of users, necessitates leveraging the potential of digital platforms to empower citizens and acknowledging and incorporating the political nature of this new urban environment. Furthermore, the intersection between the political influence of platforms on the governance of citizens and everyday life has a biopolitical dimension, since the power of platforms is exercised through policies and practices that affect individuals and collectivities. The article clarifies two essential facets of platform urbanisation: (1) the political nature of such a process, which requires a reframing of citizenship and (2) the role of both material and immaterial infrastructures in this process, which serve thus to constitute it as a new biopolitical territory. This conceptual expansion allows us to interpret digital platforms as an inextricable merging of political rationality, administrative techniques and technology.

Part. I. Introduction -- Part II. Context -- Chapter 1. The sporting mega-events inside the neoliberal experiment of urban development -- Chapter 2. Rio de Janeiro economic crisis and austerity reponses -- Chapter 3. From the dream of "new middle class" to the new urban poverty -- Chapter 4. The political crisis: urban entrepreneurship without a leader class -- Part III. Facts and reasons of the failures -- Chapter 5. Decomposition of the public security system -- Chapter 6. De-gentrification, urban sprawl and social racism -- Chapter 7. Decomposition of the urban mobility system -- Chapter 8. From the promise of integration to the legacy of exclusion: Policies for favelas in Rio de Janeiro (2007 - 2017) -- Chapter 9. Porto Maravilha: The defeat of the real estate-financial model -- Chapter 10. Porto Maravilha: Decomposition of the coalition and repositioning of public agents -- Part IV. Reconstruction of city project. Resistance and new ways -- Chapter 11. The experience of tenement houses as forms of resistance in Downtown -- Chapter 12. Experiments of counter-hegemonic coalitions -- Chapter 13. cultural policies in dispute; spaces of possibilities in front of Porto Maravilha -- Conclusion.

Intro -- Acknowledgement -- About This Book -- Introduction -- References -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- 1 Neoliberalization and Mega Events: The Transition of Rio de Janeiro's Hybrid Urban Order -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Neoliberalism, Governmentality, and Contestations -- 1.3 The Hybrid Urban Order of Rio de Janeiro: Different Logics in the Production of Space -- 1.4 The 2016 Olympic Games: Inflection Point in the Hybrid Urban Order -- 1.5 Consolidating the Space of Capital: The Expansion of Barra da Tijuca -- 1.6 The Recapture of the City Center by Big Business: Redeveloping the Port District -- 1.7 Building Entrepreneurial Favelas -- 1.8 Conclusion -- References -- 2 When the Lights Turn off. Rio de Janeiro's Wannabe Global City Trajectory -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.1.1 A Global History -- 2.2 Wannabe Global City -- 2.3 Globalizing Rio -- 2.3.1 Logic of Urban Development -- 2.4 The Legacy of the Globalizing Strategy -- 2.4.1 What Scale? -- References -- 3 Public-Private Partnerships in the Context of Mega Events -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Types of PPPs and Their Diffusion in Brazil -- 3.3 Political Game and Market Solution -- 3.4 Neoliberal Project and the Use of PPPs -- 3.5 PPPs in the Context of Mega-Sporting Events -- 3.5.1 Urban Interventions and the Olympic Project Costs -- 3.6 The Olympic Park PPPs -- 3.7 The Legacy of the Olympic Park -- References -- 4 A Mega Event Called Official Carnival: City, Culture, and Party for the Market -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Carnival as an Essential Element of the Global City Project -- 4.3 The Carnival Reinvented by the Market: The PPP Carnival -- 4.4 The Illegitimate Norm: The Antilaw Regulating the Carnival -- 4.5 Final Considerations: Popular Resistance and the Worsening of the Neoliberal Logic -- References.