The tourist city and the digital restructuring of the urban rent

Journal title ARCHIVIO DI STUDI URBANI E REGIONALI
Author/s Alessandra Esposito
Publishing Year 2021 Issue 2020/suppl. 129
Language Italian Pages 26 P. 183-208 File size 281 KB
DOI 10.3280/ASUR2020-129-S1009
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Grounded on qualitative and quantitative analyses, this contribution sustains the following thesis: short-term tourist rental (STR) is one of the main tools of urban rent today and the digital supports that promote it determine some of its peculiar conditions, especially in ur-ban contexts. Tourism industry and platform capitalism will therefore be reinterpreted starting from the role they play in the economy of rent.

Keywords: Urban rent; short-term rental; touristification; platform capitalism.

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Alessandra Esposito, La città turistica e la ristrutturazione digitale della rendita urbana in "ARCHIVIO DI STUDI URBANI E REGIONALI" suppl. 129/2020, pp 183-208, DOI: 10.3280/ASUR2020-129-S1009