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作者

Ana Estevens;Agustín Cocola-Gant;Antonio López-Gay;Fabiana Pavel

来源

CITIES,Vol.137,Issue1,Article 104275

语言

英文

关键字

Gentrification;Tourism;Redevelopment;Short-term rentals;Hotels;Neoliberalism;Southern Europe

作者单位

Centre of Geographical Studies, Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, Associated Laboratory Terra, R. Branca Edmée Marques, 1600-276 Lisboa, Portugal;School of Geography, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, LS2 9JT Leeds, UK;Department of Geography, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Campus de Bellaterra, Edifici B, Carrer de la Fortuna, s/n, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain;Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics (CED-CERCA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Carrer de Ca n'Altayó, Edifici E2, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain;Architecture, Urbanism and Design Research Center – Architecture School of Lisbon University, Rua Sá Nogueira, Pólo Universitário, Alto da Ajuda, 1349-063 Lisboa;Centre of Geographical Studies, Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, Associated Laboratory Terra, R. Branca Edmée Marques, 1600-276 Lisboa, Portugal;School of Geography, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, LS2 9JT Leeds, UK;Department of Geography, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Campus de Bellaterra, Edifici B, Carrer de la Fortuna, s/n, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain;Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics (CED-CERCA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Carrer de Ca n'Altayó, Edifici E2, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain;Architecture, Urbanism and Design Research Center – Architecture School of Lisbon University, Rua Sá Nogueira, Pólo Universitário, Alto da Ajuda, 1349-063 Lisboa

摘要

The explanation regarding the recent touristification of cities has significantly focused on the ability of platforms such as Airbnb to offer millions of tourist beds in areas that were not planned for tourism use. Exploring Lisbon, we offer instead a political economic explanation where touristification is the result of the active intervention of the neoliberal state. Lisbon moved from a phase of abandonment to be gentrified by tourism in a very short period. To explain this, we examine how the state absorbed the cost of redevelopment, thus ensuring that private capital could extract profits from rehabilitation, and allowed developers to build the most profitable product with no limitations, which to a great extent are short-term rentals, hotels, and luxury housing for transnational users. By examining how the central city has been re-invented to serve the needs of private capital, we develop a dialogue between this general process of gentrification and how it is experienced in Southern Europe as a wave of intense touristification. We contextualize this within the historical political economic process in which the European South has progressively become a space of vacation for transient populations who are presented as the new class to be served.