In recent years, the world witnessed the rise of big digital platforms
like Amazon, Airbnb, and Uber. The emerging research field of platform
urbanism focuses on these developments and concentrates on platforms and
their impact on everyday life in urban space. This book introduces a
novel approach to the problems of accessibility and opacity in this area
of research. In order to explore the black box platform urbanism more
thoroughly, different participatory mapping approaches of critical
cartography are examined. The potential of so-called counter-mapping
practices and related approaches for a deeper exploration of platform
urbanism is discussed. The author thus establishes the nexus between
participatory mapping approaches of critical cartography and their
application potential for platform urbanism and provides numerous
starting points for future research.