Herruzo-Domínguez, G.; Aladro-Prieto, J.-M.; Rey-Pérez, J. Analysis of Touristification Processes in Historic Town Centers: The City of Seville. Architecture2024, 4, 24-34.
Herruzo-Domínguez, G.; Aladro-Prieto, J.-M.; Rey-Pérez, J. Analysis of Touristification Processes in Historic Town Centers: The City of Seville. Architecture 2024, 4, 24-34.
Herruzo-Domínguez, G.; Aladro-Prieto, J.-M.; Rey-Pérez, J. Analysis of Touristification Processes in Historic Town Centers: The City of Seville. Architecture2024, 4, 24-34.
Herruzo-Domínguez, G.; Aladro-Prieto, J.-M.; Rey-Pérez, J. Analysis of Touristification Processes in Historic Town Centers: The City of Seville. Architecture 2024, 4, 24-34.
Abstract
Encouraged by the administration the gentrification process has been useful in economic terms for the reactivation of socio-cultural fabrics of historic urban spaces in decline. What was initially considered an advantage has led to the touristification of historic centres, and in turn to the alter-ation of their original use. In these settings, the demographic void caused by increasingly shunning local identity has combined with pressure from excessive tourism and the obsolescence of heritage protection bodies in charge of conservation. Given the crisis affecting the definitions of the current system, this study aims to review the envi-ronmental agents of heritage value in relation to the processes of touristification and gentrification. Data obtained from different methodologies are analysed using a multidisciplinary database, a model which enables the analysis of the relevant information from the different interacting fields. The case study focuses on the historic town centre of Seville specifically between 2015 and 2020. Elements are defined as indicators for these processes and the analysis of the case study will com-prise the main results of this research.
Keywords
gentrification; touristification; tourism in historic cities; heritage protection; Seville
Subject
Arts and Humanities, Architecture
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