This seminar series, funded by the Urban Studies Foundation aimed to reconsider the changing spaces and places of work in the city, fuelled by the rise of self-employment, home working and the platform economy. Three seminars took place in Portsmouth (2017), Southampton (2017) and Athens (2018) and a Special Issue of the Journal Urban Studies, arising from the series was published in 2021. This Special Issue was edited by Carol Ekinsmyth and Darja Reuscke.