Uber in exurbia: Peripheral platformization, post-suburbanization and the public-private ridehail partnership in the Toronto city region (upcoming)

After their legalization, ridehailing companies Uber and Lyft soon embarked on a new stage of their respective business models: the initiation of a wave of strategic partnerships with local and regional transit agencies across the North American continent. This article accounts for this trend by putting forth the concept of the public-private ridehail partnership (PPRP). It aims to render visible the PPRP as the variously contradictory attempt to splice Uber’s and Lyft’s platform-based business models with the existing social and physical realities of North American post-suburban space.