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A strength of Rosenblat's book is how she attends to the impact of different regulations in the various cities where Uber operates. In her discussion of management practices, Rosenblat juxtaposes Uber's rhetoric and workers' quotidian experiences of driving for the app. Whether Uber will remain a central feature in the platform economy remains to be seen, but, in I Uberland i , Rosenblat has aptly made her point: Uber has made its mark on how we work - and more important, on how we think about work. [Extracted from the article]

A wave of publications, both popular and academic, about the "gig economy" focuses on the impact of the loss of regular jobs on the lives of workers and the rising rate of exploitation that gig work allows. The categories are: communicative labor, cognitive labor, creative labor, emotional labor, and organizing labor. This was unforeseen by the bankers in the central cities who designed the project, but without this free labor, their project, which brought an untapped source of capital into the bank, would not work. [Extracted from the article]

Highlights from the article: Since the mid-2000s, the use of light detection and ranging (LiDAR) technology as a remote-based three-dimensional data collection technique has evolved from a specialist's tool to being ubiquitous within the fields of forestry, urban development, transportation, and the geosciences. LiDAR data are most commonly collected by fixed-wing planes, helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), and mobile terrestrial (cars, trucks, boats, and backpacks) and static terrestrial tripod-mounted configurations. Selecting the proper LiDAR data collection method for a project requires a multifaceted approach to ensure that the data collected are appropriate for the tasks at hand; this would have been an excellent addition to this book.