Smarter city, less just destination? Mobilities and social gaps in Barcelona
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- dc.contributor.author Brandajs, Fiammetta
- dc.contributor.author Russo, Antonio Paolo
- dc.date.accessioned 2024-04-08T05:45:51Z
- dc.date.available 2024-04-08T05:45:51Z
- dc.date.issued 2023
- dc.description.abstract Purpose. The purpose of this paper is to introduce a critical framework to analyse how “smart” plays out in tourism places. Moving from a recognition of the strategies, expected impacts and imageries of Smart City, the authors engage with the mobilities literature to identify pitfalls in the quest of “smartening up” cities for hypermobile populations. Design/methodology/approach. The study adopted a set of geoanalytical techniques to establish the potential relationship between the territorial upgrade of mobility and the socio-economic change processes the city of Barcelona is experiencing. Findings. The paper suggests the effect of “smart” in cities could indeed be one of economic recovery; however, one triggering fundamental transformation of the social fabric of the city, whose most evident facet is the creation of globalised functional enclaves that may be forcefields of exclusion for the most vulnerable populations. Originality/value. This paper contributes to a new stream of critical research on “smart” with a strong focus on the power of mobilities and mobility systems, whose digital enhancement plays out as a leveraging agent of new place connections and negotiations for short-term populations, but at the same time, may exclude disadvantaged subjects in their capacity to access and afford the system network.
- dc.description.sponsorship Funding from the EU’s programme HORIZON 2020 under the Grant Agreement no. 870753, and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (contract number PID2020-112525RB-I00).
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- dc.identifier.citation Brandajs F, Russo AP. Smarter city, less just destination? Mobilities and social gaps in Barcelona. JPMD. 2023 Apr 21;16(2):291-308. DOI: 10.1108/JPMD-03-2022-0020
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JPMD-03-2022-0020
- dc.identifier.issn 1753-8335
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/59676
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher Emerald
- dc.relation.ispartof Journal of Place Management and Development. 2023 Apr 21;16(2):291-308
- dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/870753
- dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/PID2020-112525RB-I00
- dc.rights Copyright © 2023, Fiammetta Brandajs and Antonio Paolo Russo. Published by Emerald Publishing Limited. This article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) licence. Anyone may reproduce, distribute, translate and create derivative works of this article (for both commercial non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.
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- dc.subject.keyword Smart cities
- dc.subject.keyword Tourism mobilities
- dc.subject.keyword Agency
- dc.subject.keyword Mobility injustice
- dc.subject.keyword Socio-demographic change
- dc.title Smarter city, less just destination? Mobilities and social gaps in Barcelona
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