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Cravinho, A. & Silva, T. M. da. (2021). Touristification of spaces and urban lifestyles: São Paulo Square, Lisbon. In Pinto, P. T., Brandão, A., and Lopes, S. S. (Ed.), Conference Proceedings Grand Projects - Urban Legacies of the Late 20th Century. (pp. 741-752). Lisboa: DINÂMIA’CET.

A. Cravinho and M. T. Silva,  "Touristification of spaces and urban lifestyles: São Paulo Square, Lisbon", in Conf. Proc. Grand Projects - Urban Legacies of the Late 20th Century, Pinto, P. T., Brandão, A., and Lopes, S. S., Ed., Lisboa, DINÂMIA’CET, 2021, pp. 741-752

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AB  - Over the past decade Lisbon’s historic city center was marked by extensive transformations,
notably the loss of residents and traditional commerce followed by
gentrification trends. While the former led to a drain of the city’s assets and a
consequent degradation of its buildings, the latter attracted new stakeholders
increasing building’s rehabilitation and prompting the growth of commercial and
residential typologies for tourism purposes. Currently, with the COVID-19 pandemic,
new challenges arise that change the previously mentioned dynamics.
In a global context these dynamics were associated with factors such as the instability
of the financial sector, migratory flows and the emergence and development
of new technologies which together with the instability of social relations
make the relocation of social interaction to multiple places a reality. Before the
COVID-19 pandemic, these factors have contributed to the increase of the real
estate and tourist pressure, as a result of the occupation of buildings for temporary
residence or local accommodation, the mobility of large tourist flows and the
growth of nightlife activities, untying the city, its identity and unique memory. But
during the confinement period, deriving from it and from the lack of tourist flow,
Lisbon has seen an emptying of its public space.
This essay identifies how the “new” stakeholders, especially tourists, contribute to
lifestyle and spatial transformations, looking into the particular case of São Paulo
square and its surroundings - where the new urban uses, associated with tourism
and leisure, demand a livingness and identity of a city in conflict with its territorial
and social dynamics. Furthermore, this study contributes to the elaboration of
flexible urban strategies that address both top-down and bottom-up demographic
change, disclosing how the new dynamics can redefine the city and mitigate its
fewer positive effects.
ER  -