scholarly journals Impact of overtourism on urban life

Spatium ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 59-66
Author(s):  
Maja Hristov ◽  
Natasa Danilovic-Hristic ◽  
Nebojsa Stefanovic

The unrestrained and constant inflow of tourists to some cities can provoke the discomfort of residents. The term ?overtourism? describes a condition in which the limits are exceeded to the point that regular everyday urban life suffers. The quantity of visitors and resulting crowds create burdens on the functioning of some city services, and they simultaneously result in a deterioration in the quality of sightseeing. This paper gives a review of the academic literature concerning this issue, especially studies concentrating on cruising and alternative short-term renting. Major complaints raised by locals on the negative impact of tourism are not only about overcrowding, but also include the serious social and economic questions of the endangerment of rights. In order to regulate and mitigate conflicts, preserve identity and allow decent urban life in all its aspects, city governments are forced to introduce some limitations and rules in the sphere of tourism, and also with regard to the real-estate market and urban planning. The level of measures and policies required depend on the type of problem, size of the city and dispersion of the attractions.

Author(s):  
Monika Siejka

One of the main tasks of real estate management in the area of the municipality is making decisions concerning the location of investments on a local scale. These decisions should be taken with the principle of sustainable development. For such an action obliges Poland's membership in the European Union. Poland as a member of the EU is obliged to implement the rules in force in the Member States. Bearing in mind that any investment impact directly or indirectly on the economic development of the municipality, is therefore a significant impact on the local real estate market. Investments that have a negative impact on the environment can contribute to a reduction in the activity of the local real estate market. While performing tasks related to the economic development of the region and the increase in quality of life, increases the activity of the local real estate market. The work was carried out research on the dynamics of changes in the local real estate market in the area of the municipality Skrzyszow in the Malopolska province in Poland, in connection with the construction of the reservoir.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (6) ◽  
pp. 147-175
Author(s):  
Ianina Roshchina ◽  
Tatyana Vashchenko

This paper considers various factors affecting housing prices in Moscow with special attention to societal conditions — particularly the quality of education provided by schools within the neighborhood. Today in Russia, children are enrolled in elementary school on the principle of territorial priority, which means that children living within the area of a given school are entitled to be enrolled there. Do parents take into consideration the quality of school education when purchasing a property? Are they prepared to pay extra for an access to better education? Does this extra amount depend on housing prices? These are the main questions of this study. To answer them, the paper analyses the best affordable school rating’s impact on accommodation prices. Not only parents, but also the real estate market would be interested in the results. Moreover, this research contributes to the understanding of migration patterns within the city. It helps determine the factors affecting someone’s choice of property. The findings will provide a more accurate assessment of decision-making in urban planning and education.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Ann L. Buttenwieser

This chapter provides a background to an adventure that began with the author's love of the waterfront and her singular passion to build a floating pool and donate it to the city for use by recreationally underserved New Yorkers. It traces the author's discovery of the Progressive Era's nineteenth-century floating baths and her first nearly adversarial meeting with a community board to securing a barge to contain the pool. It also discusses the financing of the floating project, including its design and refitting of the vessel. The chapter reviews the story of the decline of and attempts to revitalize the New York and New Jersey waterfronts in the 1980s and 1990s. It cites the periodic rises in the real estate market and oil spill that had a direct negative impact on locating a barge to house the floating pool.


2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mihai Stelian Rusu

AbstractAs toponymic means of inscribing urban space, street names have been addressed mainly by human geographers, who have articulated the field of critical place-name studies. In this paper, I continue the endeavor started in the previous issue published in Social Change Review of reading street names through sociological lenses. Whereas in the first part of this two-part contribution the analysis was made from functionalist and conflictualist perspectives, this second and final part employs social constructionism and the utilitarian theoretical tradition in making sociological sense of street nomenclatures. First, conceiving of street names as forming discursively constructed linguistic landscapes, the paper shows how urban namescapes – the “city-text” – are written, erased, and rewritten to reflect the shifting political powers. Second, the paper examines the neoliberal processes of place branding and toponymic commodification by which street names are turned into sought-after urban commodities with transactional value on the real estate market. The paper concludes by inviting sociologists to join the conversation on street names, which should become an important topic of sociological reflection.


2001 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosa MOURA

O processo de construção e aprovação do novo conjunto de leis relativas ao zoneamento de uso e ocupação do solo em Curitiba oferece elementos para uma análise dos conflitos de interesses que regem a constituição de um arcabouço legal e da luta simbólica que traduz na elaboração de um discurso que não se realiza nos termos da lei, mas que se cristaliza no imaginário dos citadinos. Tentando analisar esse processo e identificar dispositivos passíveis de serem generalizados como eficazes no controle de ocupação e uso do solo de outras cidades-modelo, na busca do protagonismo nos movimentos de inserção na reestruturação econômica internacional, este texto examina e sumariza observações quanto: ao apoio da lei no reforço à modelização urbana de Curitiba; à ausência de mecanismos e instrumentos que contemplem suas relações com o espaço metropolitano; aos efeitos socioambientais decorrentes da aplicação da lei; às questões referentes à constitucionalidade e à observação de princípios democráticos; às disposições referentes à ampliação da atratividade ao capital internacional; a sua abertura à participação da sociedade civil e à legitimidade de seus resultados. Urban land use regulation: discussion about the Curitiba’s case Abstract In 1999, a new land use law was approved in Curitiba. Its construction and approval process offers elements to discuss the meaning of a legal frame in the reinforcement of a hegemonic power around a metropolitan space, and the creation of conditions to attract the international capital, mainly from the real estate market. Trying to analyse this process, identifying elements possible to be generalised in the land use regulation of protagonists’ cities, this study examines and summarises observations on the topics: law for highlight the city-model; the lack of metropolitan instruments; conflicts between Instruments and particular interests; urban and social effects; constitutionality and observation of democratic principles. Finalising, the study intends to discuss that the dispositions included in the law and its illegitimate participation procedures have resulted in a refusing among society segments.


2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 162-173
Author(s):  
Sebastian G. Kokot

Abstract The observation of price movements on the real estate market is an extremely difficult task as we have to face problems belonging to two spheres. The first of them is the specific nature of real estate as marketable objects and of the real estate market itself. The second one is the character and quality of data on real estate transaction prices. In this article the author, based on an empirical study, attempts to prove that even in a single segment of a local real estate market the prices in individual sub-segments can fluctuate with different intensity. The range of price movements can be so vast that it seems pointless to apply a single averaged price index for the whole segment, and usually that is what analysts do.


2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-12
Author(s):  
Justyna Tanaś

Abstract The market for land for single-family housing is one of the most important segments of the real estate market. Over the last several years, we have witnessed the development of this market in the suburban areas of large agglomerations. This is connected with the intensified migration of people from the centers of big cities, and with the development of housing in suburban zones. The aim of this paper is to present the structure of the territorial origin of buyers purchasing plots designated for single-family housing in Poznań and its suburbs (with division into buyers derived from the city of Poznań, from the Poznań poviat (district), the Wielkopolska voivodeship (province), the rest of the country, and from abroad). The analysis covers the years 1995-2010.


2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 236
Author(s):  
Giuliano Orsi Marques de Carvalho ◽  
Olívia De Campos Maia Pereira ◽  
Marcos Antonio dos Santos

O texto aborda a cidade de Palmas, a última capital brasileira construída no século XX, com sua divisão sócio-espacial explícita. Estruturado em três partes, o trabalho procura entender o papel da violência primeiramente no tocante ao projeto urbanístico de 1989, enfocando a contradição entre discurso e prática; em segundo lugar, o processo de produção da cidade planejada pelo poder público e toda uma sorte de ações, muitas vezes truculentas, visando a construção do projeto; e, em terceiro lugar, a relativa autonomia do mercado imobiliário frente às características do plano original. Num prisma teórico analítico da arquitetura e do urbanismo, o texto versa aspectos históricos da criação da cidade e a violência do processo de espacialização.   PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Palmas; violência; projeto urbanístico; cenarização; mercado imobiliário.   ABSTRACT The text is about the city of Palmas, the last Brazilian capital built in the 20th century with its explicit social-spatial division. This work, structured into three parts, intends to comprehend the role of the violence in relation to the city’s urbanistic plannig from 1989, trying to focus the contradiction between speech and practice; the second part focuses on the planned city process of production managed by the public power and all the whole sort of actions, sometimes in a savage way, aiming at the construction of the project; and, finally, the relative autonomy of the real estate market towards to the features of the original plan. In a theoretical and analytical view of the urbanism and architecture, the text deals with historical aspects of the city creation and the violence of the space process.   KEYWORDS: Palmas; violence; urban planning; scenery; real estate market.   RESUMEN El texto es sobre la ciudad de Palmas, la última capital brasileña construida en el siglo XX, con su división socio espacial explícita. Estructurado en tres partes, el trabajo busca entender el papel de la violencia primeramente en relación al proyecto urbanístico de 1989, enfocando la contradicción entre discurso y práctica; la segunda parte, el proceso de producción de la ciudad planeada por el poder público y toda una cantidad de acciones, muchas veces violentas, pretendiendo la construcción del proyecto; y finalmente, la relativa autonomía de los mercados inmobiliarios en dirección a las características del plano original. En un modo teórico analítico de la arquitectura y urbanismo, el texto discurre sobre los aspectos históricos de la creación de la ciudad e la violencia del proceso del espacio.   PALABRAS CLAVE:  Palmas; violencia; proyecto urbanístico; escenario; mercado inmobiliário.


2018 ◽  
pp. 168-207
Author(s):  
Conor Lucey

Having examined the building and decorating of the urban house, this chapter explores how the artisan approached marketing and selling real estate. As the first sustained analysis of property advertising in the eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Atlantic world, this chapter first considers how regional variations and social demographics (aristocratic audiences in London and Dublin compared with merchant audiences in Boston and Philadelphia) dictated the form and content of property notices, reflecting on issues such as location, quality of structural and decorative finish, convenience, and decorum. But while house-building and house-selling were principally economic activities, representing the motivating force for building mechanics to enter the real estate market, the evidence from property advertisements reveals that builders were cognizant of the semantics of advertising rhetoric and employed a vocabulary that emulated that of auctioneers, luxury goods manufacturers and other polite retailers.


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