BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Lewis & Clark//NONSGML v1.0//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 RDATE:20190310T100000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 RDATE:20191103T090000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190923T124000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190923T134000 LOCATION:MILLER 102 SUMMARY:SOAN FALL COLLOQUIUM DESCRIPTION:SOAN FALL COLLOQUIUMThe Shared City: Negotiations over the Re gulation of Short-term Rental Properties \;in Portland\, OR\, by  \;Sarah Warren\, Associate Professor of Sociology \;In 2014\, Brian C hesky\, the CEO of Airbnb\, announced that his company would be partnerin g with cities on an initiative he called the "Shared City." This announce ment came in response to criticism leveled at Airbnb for its unwillingnes s to work with cities\, comply with local regulation and help jurisdictio ns collect lodging taxes. The first city to receive this official designa tion from the world's most powerful short-term rental platform company wa s Portland\, Oregon. Although Airbnb is no longer using the framework of Shared City to define its relationships with cities\, counties and states \, it is a useful analytic lens for probing the relationship between the "shared" economy of short-term rentals and cities. In this project\, I ta ke Portland\, Oregon\, as a central case study and compare it with other similar cities across the U.S. to examine the complications that arise wh en cities respond to and try to regulate the powerful\, venture capital-b acked companies that proclaim themselves part of the sharing economy. As the first "Shared City\," Portland is an ideal place to examine this proc ess. It has a long and varied relationship with short-term rental platfor ms companies\, particularly Airbnb. At the same time\, other cities have responded to Airbnb in different ways\, resulting in patchwork-like conte xt of agreements between Airbnb and local jurisdictions. My research  \;suggests a double-bind for the shared city: even when cities create and pass clear regulations\, they depend on the very companies they are regu lating to provide them data in order to enforce the regulations. Thus\, t he companies gain greater participation in and control over the governanc e process. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
SOAN FALL COLLOQUIUM
The
Shared City: Negotiations over the Regulation of Short-term Rental Proper
ties \;in Portland\, OR\, by \;Sarah Warren\, Associate Pr
ofessor of Sociology \;
In 2014\, Brian Chesky\, the C
EO of Airbnb\, announced that his company would be partnering with cities
on an initiative he called the "Shared City." This announcement came in
response to criticism leveled at Airbnb for its unwillingness to work wit
h cities\, comply with local regulation and help jurisdictions collect lo
dging taxes. The first city to receive this official designation from the
world's most powerful short-term rental platform company was Portland\,
Oregon. Although Airbnb is no longer using the framework of Shared City t
o define its relationships with cities\, counties and states\, it is a us
eful analytic lens for probing the relationship between the "shared" econ
omy of short-term rentals and cities. In this project\, I take Portland\,
Oregon\, as a central case study and compare it with other similar citie
s across the U.S. to examine the complications that arise when cities res
pond to and try to regulate the powerful\, venture capital-backed compani
es that proclaim themselves part of the sharing economy. As the first "Sh
ared City\," Portland is an ideal place to examine this process. It has a
long and varied relationship with short-term rental platforms companies\
, particularly Airbnb. At the same time\, other cities have responded to
Airbnb in different ways\, resulting in patchwork-like context of agreeme
nts between Airbnb and local jurisdictions. My research \;suggests a
double-bind for the shared city: even when cities create and pass clear r
egulations\, they depend on the very companies they are regulating to pro
vide them data in order to enforce the regulations. Thus\, the companies
gain greater participation in and control over the governance process.
\n The Shared City: Negotiations over the Regu lation \;of Short-term Rental Properties \;in Portl and\, OR presented by \;Sarah Warren\, Associate \;Profess or of Sociology\n
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