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- Adamiak, Czesław, et al.
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Airbnb and urban population change : an empirical analysis of the case of Stockholm, Sweden
- 2023
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Ingår i: Urban Research and Practice. - : Routledge. - 1753-5069 .- 1753-5077.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Internet platforms enabling the short-term rental of private homes are an increasingly important provider of tourist accommodation and a challenge for urban policy. Airbnb is frequently blamed for encouraging property owners to remove their homes from the permanent housing market, thus contributing to the gentrification and displacement of local residents. Empirical research on this topic has been mostly represented by qualitative or indirect quantitative studies, which focus on changes in housing availability rather than the actual population. In our study, we fill this gap by presenting a study of the city of Stockholm, using two sources of georeferenced data: information on properties offered for rent on the Airbnb platform and micro-data on individuals and properties derived from the national statistical office. We verify whether the high number of apartment rental offers on the Airbnb website contributes to the high number of apartments that became uninhabited during 2012–2016. Using both aspatial and spatial autoregressive models, we find that the platform expansion does have a significant effect on the number of emptied apartments, and thus conclude that the presence of Airbnb contributes to the process of touristification, understood as the replacement of permanent residents with non-permanent populations. This confirms that when analysing urban population change and the gentrification process, mobile populations should be considered. Context-aware multiscalar and relational approaches are needed to understand the interrelation between human mobility, housing markets and regulations, and transnational internet platforms.
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- Adelfio, Marco, 1980, et al.
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London's King's Cross redevelopment: a compact, resource efficient and 'liveable' global city model for an era of climate emergency?
- 2021
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Ingår i: Urban Research and Practice. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1753-5069 .- 1753-5077. ; 14:2, s. 180-200
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Cities have long been subject to urban containment policies against urban sprawl. Climate change concerns have recently added to the imperative to densify urban space. Urban compaction is often pursued through the creation of 'exemplar' urban developments that superficially implement 'best practice' ideas from elsewhere. In this paper, we abandon the notion of 'best practice' in favour of context-sensitive 'good practices'. Taking London's King's Cross redevelopment as a case study, this paper draws on qualitative methods to examine the contribution of context and path-dependency, as a product of local and non-local forces, to the emergence of King ' s Cross as 'good practice'.
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- Adscheid, Toni, et al.
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Mobilising post-political environments : tracing the selective geographies of Swedish sustainable urban development
- 2021
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Ingår i: Urban Research and Practice. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1753-5069 .- 1753-5077. ; 14:2, s. 117-137
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper develops an analytical framework from which to understand the mobilisation of post-political urban environments across spatial and institutional contexts. Our analysis of two closely related cases from a Swedish context reveals the potential benefits of combining studies on urban political ecology and policy mobility. By utilising Actor-Network Theory (ANT) we illustrate how post-political environments that are shaped by mobile and mutating policies of sustainable urban development are stabilised through distinct discursive strategies, capital investments and the desire for increased influence within global frames of action and contribute to the creation of, what we call, selective geographies.
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- Aguiar Borges, Luciane, et al.
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The role of official heritage in regional spaces
- 2016
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Ingår i: Urban Research and Practice. - : Routledge. - 1753-5069 .- 1753-5077. ; 9:3, s. 290-310
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- Following the argument that increasing mobility has scattered consumption throughout Sweden’s regions, this study investigates how individuals’ consumption choices are influenced by official heritage. It argues that individuals’ everyday routines highlight the role played by heritage in socio-economic regional change, challenging traditional planning systems and altering individuals’ relationships with their environments, leading to new values being placed on official heritage. This argument was tested using interviews and questionnaires in Mariefred, Sweden, and demonstrates that official heritage plays multiple and contrasting roles, including the use of heritage as an attempt to reconcile opposing principles such as progress/development and tradition/conservation.
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- Görmar, Franziska, et al.
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Power relations and local agency: a comparative study of European mining towns
- 2023
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Ingår i: Urban Research & Practice. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1753-5069 .- 1753-5077. ; 16:4, s. 558-581
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Local agency is marked by its structural boundedness including nation state strategies. We investigate the dynamic and mutually constitutive interrelationship between agency and state strategies to better understand and explain change in local development with the examples of four mining towns: Kiruna (Sweden), Zeitz (Germany), Most (Czechia) and Tatabánya (Hungary). They embody processes of industrial transition and mining activities that are heavily regulated by (supra-) national authorities and marked by constantly changing multiscalar power relations. We find local agency is constrained by rather specific relations and can be facilitated by more complementary ones, both on local level and between different scales
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