Professor Rachel Granger says new thinking and bold new approach is needed to help the city recover and believes lessons could be taken from the radical sharing model, which sees assets and services shared between businesses, communities and organisations.
Although rentals and re-use is not a new concept, the sharing economy takes this a step further, using technology and connections to increase accessibility. It also gets more use out of goods such as cars, offices, clothes as more people use them.
“Radical change is needed,” said Professor Granger. “As a sharing city, Leicester could not only level up but lead the way.
“Our vehicles are idle for 90% of the time, our offices are idle for 35% of the time. There has got to be a much better way we can organise this to support each other and answer the need.
“The sharing economy has been promoted as a way of reducing fossil fuel and…
