Handbook

This course explores the role of law and regulation in supporting sustainable cities and communities. The course begins with an overview of key issues for law, regulation and economic development raised by the goal of ‘making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable’, as framed by Sustainable Development Goal No.11. The course then explores two alternative frameworks for analysing economic practices: diverse economies and doughnut economics, with a focus on their implications for law and regulation. After developing familiarity with the broad ideas of each of these frameworks, the course explores their application to the issue of sharing economies and platform governance, with a particular focus on legal entity structures, risk management, and environmental outcomes. The course concludes by exploring different pathways for city policymaking in the light of what has been learned in the course as a whole.

Main Topics Include:

1. Sustainable Cities
2. Diverse Economies
3. Doughnut Economics
4. Sharing Economies and Platform Governance
5. Legal Entities
6. Risk Management
7. Environmental Outcomes
8. Policymaking for Sharing Cities