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Alessio Varenna

New SMARTDEST publication: The role of the state in the touristification of Lisbon

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by Ana Estevens, Agustín Cocola-Gant, Antonio Lopés-Gay, Fabiana Pavel

This paper shows how the touristification of Lisbon has been a political project in which the state served the needs of capital and allowed developers to build the most profitable product with no limitations: Airbnbs, hotels, and luxury housing for transnational users. We estimate the weight of tourism in the rehabilitation of the housing stock, showing that > 50% of housing in the historic centre is registered as short-term rentals; that there are > 500 buildings entirely used as Airbnbs; while the population has decreased 25% in 10 years. The political project that we refer, used a neoliberal urban planning narrative, advocating that property markets work better when the state allows developers to behave ‘undisturbed’ by regulations. In reality, the paper shows how this is a perverse process by which taxpayers unwillingly subsidised their own displacement and the production of a city that is not for them.

The publication is accessible at the following https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2023.104275

 

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CITYLABS AS INSTRUMENTS FOR URBAN CHANGE: co-learning and scaling-up workshop – March 2nd 2023 – Lisbon

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The event will take place on March 2nd 2023 in Lisbon at the Centro de Informação Urbana de Lisboa CIUL.
The event will be freely accessible to the public, but there will be not the online streaming of the event.
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As part of our dissemination strategy, SMARTDEST partnership invites leading experts and practitioners in the field to present their own experience with participatory methodologies (city labs, urban living labs, etc.).
The specific objective of this event is to present the results of the project’s 7 city labs and to establish a dialogue with researchers, civil society, and stakeholders who have engaged in similar experiences and faced the challenge of scaling up micro level results into local, national, and European scales and their policy dimensions.
At this point, the project team is conducting city labs in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Jerusalem, Lisbon, Ljubljana, Turin, and Venice. In all 7 cities, participatory fora have been created, solutions have been co-designed and concept tested in articulation with affected communities and other stakeholders.

Participatory methods and urban issues
This session brings together researchers with consolidated experience in participatory methods, including urban living labs and other similar fora Our aim is to learn from past or ongoing labs, and to discuss their innovation potential and social impact.

Scaling up challenges and policy interventions
This session brings together practitioners and stakeholders who have faced the challenge of translating results from participatory methodologies into policy at different scales local, national, or European. We are interested in learning from your experiences and discussing the potentials and limitations of policy making and policy implementation resulting from city labs.

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