'Tourists go home': anti-tourism industry protest in Barcelona

N Hughes - Social movement studies, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This profile looks at the wave of at times violent protests against the economic, social and
environmental consequences of mass tourism in Barcelona, which came to international …

Urban sustainability and perceived satisfaction in neoliberal cities

N Valenzuela-Levi, L Fuentes, MI Ramirez… - Cities, 2022 - Elsevier
In light of growing levels of urbanisation globally, the concept of urban sustainability has
become an increasingly important element of the general discussion on sustainable …

Lisbon after the crisis: from credit‐fuelled suburbanization to tourist‐driven gentrification

I Lestegás - International journal of urban and regional research, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This article examines Lisbon's post‐crisis transition from a once dominant process of
suburban expansion enabled by abundant credit to one of ongoing gentrification of its …

Commodifying Lisbon: A study on the spatial concentration of short-term rentals

I Lestegás, J Seixas, RC Lois-González - Social Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
This article explores the relationship between the spatial concentration of short-term rentals
in Lisbon's historic center and the phenomena of uneven development and tourism …

Urban common space, heterotopia and the right to the city: Reflections on the ideas of Henri Lefebvre and David Harvey

OA Santos Junior - urbe. Revista Brasileira de Gestão Urbana, 2014 - SciELO Brasil
A city's common spaces are appropriated by capital that aims to guarantee the conditions
necessary for the production-reproduction of capitalist relations. In this context, the …

Global policies for moving cities: The role of think tanks in the proliferation of bus rapid transit systems in Latin America and worldwide

D Silva Ardila - Policy and Society, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Implementation in the late nineties of Transmilenio, a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) based
transportation policy in Bogotá (Colombia), marked an inflection milestone for the replication …

Urban development and cultural policy “white elephants”: Barcelona and Valencia

J Rius-Ulldemolins, GM Hernàndez I Martí… - European Planning …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The importance of culture in defining new models of local development has been
increasingly emphasized. However, less attention has been paid to the influence of local …

Neoliberalization and mega-events: the transition of Rio de Janeiro's hybrid urban order

LCQ Ribeiro, OA Santos Junior - Journal of Urban Affairs, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The current developments in Rio de Janeiro in the wake of the 2014 International Federation
of Association Football (FIFA) World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympic Games have …

[HTML][HTML] Comunes urbanos: de la gestión colectiva al derecho a la ciudad

M Castro-Coma, M Martí-Costa - eure (Santiago), 2016 - SciELO Chile
Existe un creciente interés y una emergente literatura académica en los estudios urbanos
sobre los comunes y su aplicación. Por un lado, destacan aquellas aportaciones que …

The global rent gap of Lisbon's historic centre

I Lestegás, RC Lois-González, J Seixas - Sustain. City, 2018 - books.google.com
This work deals with the ongoing commodification of Lisbon's historic centre under the
pressure of mass tourism and transnational real estate investment. It applies a case-study …