The speed and scale of urban tourism growth raises new challenges to understand contemporary gentrification processes, namely for internationally open, heritage-rich medium-sized cities. Based on the case of Porto (Portugal), we explore two of such challenges. First, we claim that the concept is becoming rather diffuse and that there’s a need to consider different types of rapid urban change, namely social (of ...
The aim of this article is to develop the concept of time-space complexity as a way of discussing how territorial time-space production affects urban life and use. The discussion is based on a comparative study of opening hours in four centrally located European retail areas: Angers, Lisbon, Malmö and Porto. Following a comparative study of these areas, we discuss tendencies of temporal and spatial homogenisati...
Com poucas exceções, as aldeias que persistem vivas e que se encontram numa localização marcada pela condição periférica e de (muito) baixa densidade, estão marcadas por um contexto de despovoamento, com exceções pontuais de atração de neo-rurais ou visitantes. É nesse contexto que, em espaço de montanha, porventura ultraperiférico e de muito baixa densidade que, para o caso de aldeias das serras de Marão, Abob...