scholarly journals Urban Transformations as an Indicator of Unsustainability in the P2P Mass Tourism Phenomenon: The Airbnb Case in Spain through Three Case Studies

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 2933 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salvador Garcia-Ayllon
Keyword(s):  
Social Impact ◽  
Current Trend ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Mass Tourism ◽  
European Cities ◽  
Urban Transformations ◽  
Palma De Mallorca ◽  
The City ◽  
Current Incidence

Globalization and the development of the so-called “collaborative economies” has coincided with an important transformation of mass tourism in the last decades. This phenomenon has been accentuated enormously in many European cities in recent years, generating a new P2P tourist model. The situation is having a strong social impact on the urban transformation of cities, and its characteristics are closely related to real estate speculative movements. In this sense, the analysis of urban transformation can offer interesting conclusions about the sustainability of these new tourist models in large touristic cities. In this article, we will analyse the effect associated with of so-called phenomena of “tourist flats” from the Airbnb portal in the cities of Madrid, Barcelona, and Palma de Mallorca. Through the use of GIS indicators and geostatistic analysis of spatial correlation, the current incidence of this phenomenon in these cities, and possible future scenarios of maintaining the current trend, will be evaluated and discussed. The results obtained show worrying indicators in relation to the economic and social sustainability of the current urban-tourist model created in the city which are linked to gentrification processes.

scholarly journals O Pontal do Estaleiro: estudo etnográfico da memória do trabalho na cidade de Porto Alegre, RS

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (30) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Paula Marcante Soares
Keyword(s):  
Work Experience ◽  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Work Practices ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Porto Alegre ◽  
Urban Transformations ◽  
The City

A partir da experiência etnográfica no contexto urbano da cidade de Porto Alegre, RS, propõe-se refletir a dinâmica espaço-temporal da memória do trabalho apoiando-se em narrativas biográficas de ex-trabalhadores de um antigo Estaleiro. Com base no estudo das redes de trabalho vinculadas à territorialidade da região da Orla do rio Guaíba, próximo ao Cristal, em Porto Alegre, RS, propõe-se investigar a rítmica e ressonâncias do fluxo das transformações urbanas nas suas relações com práticas de trabalho operário. Trata-se de pensar as continuidades e descontinuidades do tempo vivido de uma experiência de trabalho tida como singular sob o contexto de conformação e transformação dessa região da cidade. Pretende-se refletir sobre as transformações urbanas propostas recentemente para o Pontal pelo viés de trajetórias de trabalho e das dimensões simbólicas e materiais que esse território evoca. As reflexões aqui propostas perpassam as tensões representadas pelo fenômeno de crise experienciada pela comunidade de trabalho do Estaleiro com o encerramento das suas atividades e a recente destruição de suas ruínas. Palavras chave: Trabalho Operário. Memória. Cidade.   Pontal do Estaleiro (Shipyard Point): an ethnographic study of the memories of employment work in the city of Porto Alegre, RS   Abstract  The study aims at reflecting the spatial temporal dynamics of the memories on work based on the ethnographic experience in the urban context of Porto Alegre – RS according to the biographic narratives of former workers employed at an extinct shipyard. Based on the work networks linked to the area of the Guaiba River waterfront, in the Cristal suburb of Porto Alegre, RS, the proposal is to investigate the rhythm and resonance of the flow of  urban transformation in its relationship with work practices. It is a matter of thinking of the continuities and discontinuities of time seen through a work experience which was considered singular in the context of the conformation and transformation of this part of town.  The idea is to reflect on the urban transformations that have been recently proposed for the Pontal, through work trajectories and the symbolic and material dimensions evoked by this area. The reflections proposed herein go beyond the tensions represented by the phenomenon of the crisis the Shipyard’s labor community was subjected to at the time it was closed down, and the recent razing of its ruins. Keywords: Work Labor. Memory. City.

Genova, dalle Colombiane a Capitale Europea della Cultura. Grandi eventi e processi di rigenerazione urbana

TERRITORIO ◽  
2009 ◽  
pp. 103-109
Author(s):  
Francesco Gastaldi
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
City Centre ◽  
The Past ◽  
European Capital Of Culture ◽  
Urban Transformations ◽  
The City ◽  
Historical Centre

- Major events have played a crucial role in the urban transformations that have taken place in Genoa over the past 15 years, both for the huge investments they require and for the way they have redefined the city's image. Urban transformation, upgrading and maintenance, all of which have affected the historical centre and the waterfront, have contributed decisively to the reversing of the process of physical, economic and social degradation which had been devouring many parts of the city centre. 2004 was the year Genoa became European Capital of Culture and this was a turning point in the endeavour to relaunch and consolidate the role of the city in the tourist and cultural panorama of both Italy and Europe.

Political discourse analysis of the degrowth challenge to dominant tourism narratives in Spain.

2021 ◽  
pp. 86-103
Author(s):  
Neil Hughes ◽  
José Mansilla
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Environmental Effects ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Grassroots Organizations ◽  
Mass Tourism ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Political Discourse Analysis ◽  
Palma De Mallorca ◽  
The City

Abstract This chapter uses as a case Spanish cities such as Madrid, Palma de Mallorca, Bilbao, Seville, Valencia and Barcelona, to explore the role that degrowth social movement actors and ideas have played in protest action directed at the tourism sector in recent years. The authors identify important episodes of contestation in which degrowth activists have been present. Particularly after 2015, the Neighbourhood Assembly for Sustainable Tourism, a degrowth-inspired association made up of grassroots organizations, assemblies and groups, has made several efforts to reduce the flow of tourists to Barcelona in an attempt to reverse the damaging social, economic, cultural and environmental effects that mass tourism is having on the city. In its attempt to explore various degrowth issues, the chapter sets out a conceptual framework that draws from key literature in the field of political discourse analysis, Althusserian treatment of ideology and interpellation, and work on degrowth and tourism.

Political discourse analysis of the degrowth challenge to dominant tourism narratives in Spain.

2021 ◽  
pp. 86-103
Author(s):  
Neil Hughes ◽  
José Mansilla
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Environmental Effects ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Grassroots Organizations ◽  
Mass Tourism ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Political Discourse Analysis ◽  
Palma De Mallorca ◽  
The City

Abstract This chapter uses as a case Spanish cities such as Madrid, Palma de Mallorca, Bilbao, Seville, Valencia and Barcelona, to explore the role that degrowth social movement actors and ideas have played in protest action directed at the tourism sector in recent years. The authors identify important episodes of contestation in which degrowth activists have been present. Particularly after 2015, the Neighbourhood Assembly for Sustainable Tourism, a degrowth-inspired association made up of grassroots organizations, assemblies and groups, has made several efforts to reduce the flow of tourists to Barcelona in an attempt to reverse the damaging social, economic, cultural and environmental effects that mass tourism is having on the city. In its attempt to explore various degrowth issues, the chapter sets out a conceptual framework that draws from key literature in the field of political discourse analysis, Althusserian treatment of ideology and interpellation, and work on degrowth and tourism.

Urban Transformation of Muslim Spanish Cites after 1492: The Case Study of Baza, Granada (Spain); from a “Petrified” City to Its Great Expansions

2020 ◽  
pp. 009614422093107
Author(s):  
Juan Manuel Santiago Zaragoza ◽  
Francisco Javier Lafuente-Bolívar ◽  
Francisco Javier Salas-Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Historic Site ◽  
Urban Transformations ◽  
The City ◽  
Strong Expansion

Spanish Islamic cities stagnated or declined after 1492. Because of the expulsion of Jews and Moors, despite the repopulation policies, they seemed to “petrify” their size. The uninhabited houses and the suburbs disappeared. The extension and population of the main Muslim cities, Almeria, Seville, Toledo, Valencia, Zaragoza, tended to decrease. Murcia and Granada are two paradigmatic cases of evolution. In the kingdom of Granada, Baza was an important settlement at the end of Middle Ages. Urban transformations adapted it to Castilian policies: mosques were transformed into churches, squares and gates were opened, some streets widened, and so on. However, its size remained “petrified.” In the nineteenth century, there was a strong population growth cushioned by the phenomenon of “cave-house.” From mid-twentieth century, it had a strong expansion and growth regardless urban plans. Currently, the city, declared as Historic Site, has slowed down its growth, although its planning foresees it will keep growing.

scholarly journals Impactos de la priorización peatonal sobre el comercio y los servicios a pie de calle. Ejes comerciales de la ciudad de Madrid: gentrificación comercial y pérdida de complejidad urbana = Impacts of pedestrian prioritization on retailing and street level services. Commercial axes in the city of Madrid: commercial gentrification and extinction of urban complexity

2019 ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
Laura R. Salvador González
Keyword(s):  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Sustainable Mobility ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Street Level ◽  
Urban Transformations ◽  
The City

Resumen Los proyectos de transformación urbana que fomentan la prioridad peatonal suponen notables mejoras en la calidad del espacio público y la movilidad sostenible, y por tanto, en condiciones ambientales, sociales y económicas. Sin embargo, si no se toman las precauciones necesarias en su implementación, también pueden terminar generando indeseables consecuencias, como la expulsión y el desplazamiento del pequeño comercio tradicional, sustituido por franquicias y multinacionales, debido principalmente al incremento de valor inmobiliario del área transformada. Este modelo consolida, inevitablemente, procesos de exclusión, gentrificación y segregación socioespacial, que impulsan la pérdida de diversidad, identidad y complejidad en los centros urbanos.Ante la inexistencia de estudios que precisen estos impactos en la ciudad de Madrid, surge esta investigación, con el fin de cuantificar y cualificar los efectos generados por las priorizaciones peatonales sobre comercio y servicios a pie de calle en los principales ejes comerciales de la ciudad. Para ello, se registran y analizan, sincrónica y diacrónicamente, las actividades económicas del zócalo comercial de nueve ejes madrileños durante el período 2008-2018. Se termina verificando que dichas transformaciones han sido determinantes en la desaparición del comercio tradicional, principalmente en condiciones de mayor centralidad y de peatonalizaciones completas.Abstract Urban transformation projects encouraging pedestrian priority represent improvements in the quality of public spaces and sustainable mobility, and therefore, in environmental, social and economic conditions. However, if preventive measures are not taken in its implementation, they end up generating undesirable results, like the expulsion and displacement of small traditional retail shops, being replaced by franchises and multinational stores, which mainly derives from the increase in value of real estate properties in transformed areas. This model inevitably consolidates processes of exclusion, gentrification and socio-spatial segregation, which drives into a loss of diversity, identity and complexity in urban centers. In the absence of studies that specify these impacts in the city of Madrid, this research emerges, in order to quantify and qualify the effects caused by pedestrian prioritization on the commercial sector and services at street level in the main commercial areas of the city. To this end, all the economic activities of nine commercial axes have been registered and analyzed, synchronously and diachronically, in the period 2008-2018. Finally, it is verified the implication of these urban transformations in the disappearance of traditional retail shops, mainly in conditions of greater centrality and full pedestrianizations.

Modernism, Space and the City

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Thacker
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Joseph Conrad ◽  
Jean Rhys ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
European Cities ◽  
Blaise Cendrars ◽  
Stephen Spender ◽  
Christopher Isherwood ◽  
The City

This innovative book examines the development of modernism in four European cities: London, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna. Focusing upon how literary and cultural outsiders represented various spaces in these cities, it draws upon contemporary theories of affect, mood, and literary geography to offer an original account of the geographical emotions of modernism. It considers three broad features of urban modernism: the built environment of the particular cities, such as cafés or transport systems; the cultural institutions of publishing that underpinned the development of modernism in these locations; and the complex perceptions of writers and artists who were outsiders to the four cities. Particular attention is thus given to the transnational qualities of modernism by examining figures whose view of the cities considered is that of migrants, exiles, or strangers. The writers and artists discussed include Mulk Raj Anand, Gwendolyn Bennett, Bryher, Blaise Cendrars, Joseph Conrad, T. S. Eliot, Christopher Isherwood, Hope Mirlees, Noami Mitchison, Jean Rhys, Sam Selon, and Stephen Spender.

scholarly journals The European Green Capital Award—Is It a Dream or Reality for Belgrade (Serbia)?

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 6182
Author(s):  
Marijana Pantić ◽  
Saša Milijić
Keyword(s):  
Urban Transformation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Transmission Of Knowledge ◽  
Current State ◽  
Transitional Countries ◽  
Great Hope ◽  
Environmentally Responsible ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
The City ◽  
Insight Into

An agreement of cooperation and transmission of knowledge regarding the nomination for the European Green Capital Award (EGCA) was signed between the mayors of Belgrade and Ljubljana (EGCA 2016 winner) in September 2018. The candidacy of Belgrade was finally realized in October 2019. Great hope was placed in this endeavour because internationally recognized awards, such as the EGCA, represent enormous capital for both the city and the state. The EGCA requires serious preparation and significant fulfilment of preconditions. Many economically strong and environmentally responsible cities competed for the award, but did not win. On the other hand, the capital of Serbia does not appear to be an obvious winning candidate, especially as it is differentiated from the previous winners by being a non-EU city and by the fact that it is still undergoing an intense urban transformation, characteristic of transitional countries. Therefore, the main aim of this article is to present a review of the current state of Belgrade’s environmental qualities and its comparison with the EGCA criteria and with Grenoble as one of the winning competitors. The article gives a full overview of the EGCA requirements with certain details on required indicators, gives relevant insight into the procedure, which could be of use for any future candidacy, and discusses potential benefits for winners, losers and repeat candidacies.

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