Touristification
Touristification is the transformation of a neighbourhood to serve visitors before residents: homes turned into holiday rentals, everyday shops replaced by chains and leisure, and prices that push out those who lived there. It is gentrification whose engine is not a new neighbour but a passing one.
Short-term rental platforms accelerated the process from 2012 by turning any flat into a hotel. Barcelona, Lisbon, Mexico City and Venice now measure the phenomenon as a share of homes withdrawn from residential renting, and regulate with licences, moratoria and zone caps.
Videos on this term (8)
- Housing
The Rent Gap: How It Reveals When Gentrification Has Already Begun
Neil Smith's rent gap measures the difference between current and potential land rent and shows that gentrification…
3 min read - Urban form
Mariana Valverde: How Small Rules Order Our City
Mariana Valverde shows that licences, zoning, regulations and policing produce urban order decision by decision.…
Mariana Valverde 3 min read - Housing
How Airbnb Changes the City: Rising Rents and Vanishing Neighbours
Airbnb raises rents, replaces local shops and dissolves neighbourhood ties. What the studies show and how…
3 min read - Urban economy
Siliconized Cities: Who Is Running Your City Now?
How tech platforms became the operating system of the city: San Francisco's tech gentrification, Airbnb, dark…
3 min read - Urban economy
Touristification: Zukin, Sassen and the city for tourists
What touristification is and how Sharon Zukin (Naked City) and Saskia Sassen explain it: authenticity turned into a…
2 min read - Urban AI
Platform Urbanism: How Uber, Airbnb and Deliveroo Change the City
Platform urbanism explains how Uber, Airbnb and Deliveroo reorganise transport, housing, retail and work.
2 min read - Urban AI
Automation and Urban Inequality: What Autor and Srnicek Explain
Automation polarises urban employment and platforms fragment work. What David Autor and Nick Srnicek show and which…
3 min read - Housing
The Impact of Airbnb on Neighbourhoods: Rents and Everyday Life
How short-term rental raises rents, replaces local shops with souvenir stores and breaks neighbourhood life, and…
3 min read
