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Tourism, nightlife and planning ; challenges and opportunities for community liveability in La Barceloneta
UID/SOC/04647/2013; SFRH/BPD/108458/2015; SFRH/BPD/115726/2016 ; In Barceloneta, one of the beachfront quarters of the city of Barcelona, the rapid expansion of illegal short-term rental apartments for tourists and noise problems related to both alcohol-fuelled nightlife consumption, are challenging community liveability and peaceful urban coexistence between different social groups. Similarly to other worldwide cases, the rapid expansion of touristification on the urban and socio-economic fabric of the city has increasingly become a source of dispute and residents' contestation. By taking a diachronical critical review, the first part of the text examines the role of urban planning developed in Barceloneta during the period 1950-2016 in transforming the quarter into a leisure-oriented, tourist-oriented quarter. The second part of the paper is based on a a 2-year ethnographic fieldwork that was conducted to capture the range of different voices, stories and discourses produced and reproduced by different actors affected and/or involved in the recent touristification of Barceloneta. Findings obtained confirm that current urban policy and planning are clearly insufficient to tackle and address negative community-based impacts aforementioned. Hence the final section highligts the urgent need for the development and implementation of a new community-based urban planning with the aim of ensuring community liveability and peaceful urban coexistence between different social groups in Barceloneta. ; authorsversion ; published
Tourism, nightlife and planning ; challenges and opportunities for community liveability in La Barceloneta
UID/SOC/04647/2013; SFRH/BPD/108458/2015; SFRH/BPD/115726/2016 ; In Barceloneta, one of the beachfront quarters of the city of Barcelona, the rapid expansion of illegal short-term rental apartments for tourists and noise problems related to both alcohol-fuelled nightlife consumption, are challenging community liveability and peaceful urban coexistence between different social groups. Similarly to other worldwide cases, the rapid expansion of touristification on the urban and socio-economic fabric of the city has increasingly become a source of dispute and residents' contestation. By taking a diachronical critical review, the first part of the text examines the role of urban planning developed in Barceloneta during the period 1950-2016 in transforming the quarter into a leisure-oriented, tourist-oriented quarter. The second part of the paper is based on a a 2-year ethnographic fieldwork that was conducted to capture the range of different voices, stories and discourses produced and reproduced by different actors affected and/or involved in the recent touristification of Barceloneta. Findings obtained confirm that current urban policy and planning are clearly insufficient to tackle and address negative community-based impacts aforementioned. Hence the final section highligts the urgent need for the development and implementation of a new community-based urban planning with the aim of ensuring community liveability and peaceful urban coexistence between different social groups in Barceloneta. ; authorsversion ; published
Tourism, nightlife and planning ; challenges and opportunities for community liveability in La Barceloneta
Nofre, Jordi (author) / Giordano, Emanuele (author) / Eldridge, Adam (author) / Martins, Joao C. (author) / Fernandez, Jorge Sequera (author) / Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais (CICS.NOVA - NOVA FCSH)
2018-01-01
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
DDC:
710
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