TY - CHAP
T1 - BARCELONA’S GREENING PARADOX AS AN EMERGING GLOBAL CITY AND TOURISM DESTINATION
AU - Kotsila, Panagiota
AU - Oscilowicz, Emilia
AU - Sekulova, Filka
AU - Triguero-Mas, Margarita
AU - Honey-Rosés, Jordi
AU - Anguelovski, Isabelle
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 selection and editorial matter, Isabelle Anguelovski and James J. T. Connolly.
PY - 2021/1/1
Y1 - 2021/1/1
N2 - Following an ambitious urban renewal program that began in the late 1980s, Barcelona has become a major tourism destination in the Mediterranean. As an emerging global city, planners in Barcelona today are greening the city through park improvements, street re-designs and street traffic-calming initiatives. While striving to provide locals with green amenities, these beautification projects have also produced unexpected consequences, as they bring in more visitors and accelerate gentrification. Currently, few city greening projects can avoid discussions of gentrification, and neighborhood groups have begun to organize in opposition to the touristification that has made their neighborhoods unaffordable and/or exclusive. While the current COVID-19 pandemic has drastically reduced the number of visitors to Barcelona-producing a new experience for local residents-the impacts on local street life, public space, housing and gentrification trends remain uncertain.
AB - Following an ambitious urban renewal program that began in the late 1980s, Barcelona has become a major tourism destination in the Mediterranean. As an emerging global city, planners in Barcelona today are greening the city through park improvements, street re-designs and street traffic-calming initiatives. While striving to provide locals with green amenities, these beautification projects have also produced unexpected consequences, as they bring in more visitors and accelerate gentrification. Currently, few city greening projects can avoid discussions of gentrification, and neighborhood groups have begun to organize in opposition to the touristification that has made their neighborhoods unaffordable and/or exclusive. While the current COVID-19 pandemic has drastically reduced the number of visitors to Barcelona-producing a new experience for local residents-the impacts on local street life, public space, housing and gentrification trends remain uncertain.
KW - grassroots green spaces
KW - green beautification
KW - green corridors
KW - green gentrification and displacement
KW - new parks and park improvements
KW - tech and design economy
KW - the inequalities at stake: green appropriation
KW - the urban development pattern of the city and neighborhood: long-term growth, post-crisis fast recovery
KW - the urban greening of the city and/or neighborhood: green resilient infrastructure
KW - tourism-driven development
KW - urban renewal
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85137492906&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9781003183273-20
DO - 10.4324/9781003183273-20
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85137492906
SN - 9781032024134
SP - 213
EP - 224
BT - The Green City and Social Injustice
PB - Taylor and Francis AS
ER -
