This book offers a unique perspective on urban processes affecting tourist spaces and city centres. Economic, social and environmental uncertainty has been commonplace since March 2019, when mobility slowed down across the globe. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated trends that have been investigated in urban space for years. The incorporation of technologies, the expansion of tourism and the introduction of policies that in part want to advance sustainability are generating processes of reorganisation of territories that are driving changes. These changes will affect models of city, urbanism and society.
This publication is directed to a wide spectrum of people interested in urban processes, tourism and social change in the context of the Post-Pandemic Covid-19. In particular, the book is aimed at researchers, undergraduate and postgraduate students, consultants, public administrations and the public interested in the recent challenges that are affecting developed and developing societies.
Part 1: Tourism dynamics in urban city centres.- Towards resilient
urbanism in tourist cities: post-pandemic challenges.- The pain of being a
resident in Granada. Analysis of the accommodation offer and residents“
perception.- Recent socio-spatial transformations in the San Pedro
neighbourhood (Santiago de Compostela).- The touristification of historic
centres through commercial gentrification in times of Covid-19.- Citizen
resistance in touristified neighborhoods. A post-pandemic anįlisis.-
Neoliberalism, collaborative economy, and short-term rentals regulation in
Andalusia, Spain.- Changes in the role of heritage in historic centres: the
mutation of historic buildings into tourist accommodation.- Part 2:
Urban-tourist spaces on the coast: New urbanised spaces and resistance.-
Urban-tourism spaces on the coast: transformations, challenges and
globalisation in uncertain scenarios.- Landscape preservation on the
Mediterranean coast; do social movements play a decisive role? The case ofthe
Costa Brava (Spain).- The construction of sustainable territorial models in
the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic: Lessons from medium-sized
Mediterranean cities.- Housing change during the Covid-19 pandemic in the
metropolitan areas of the Canary Island capitals (Spain).- Two megaprojects
One city. Learning between large-scale urban development projects on
Tenerife, Spain.- Touristification process in seaside destination inland: The
case of Mallorca Island, Spain.- Part 3: Urban transformations: New dynamics,
conflicts and challenges in a context of uncertainty.- Towards urban
degrowth? Urban planning as a common thread of contradictory dynamics in
cities.- Shrinking cities in Spain: Shrinking medium-sized cities in the 21st
century. Depopulation and employment.- The peripheries of Spanish
developmentalism. an enduring model of urban fragmentation.- Housing, a
problem perpetuated over time in Spain. New initiatives to promote access to
affordable housing in Madrid.- Residentialexpectations in a neoliberal
perspective: A sociological view of social classes and the right to housing.-
(Re)thinking gentrification processes. The place of religion.- Metropolitan
spatial reconfiguration and the mobility transition: Sustainability
challenges in the fragmented city.- Sustainability and urban development
strategies: Ciudad Real.- Part 4: Postscript.- Intra-urban borders in border
cities: The nationally interchangeable dynamics of urban centrality.
