Fluctuating (in)visibility. Addressing the gap between the attractive city and the inclusive city
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19685470 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alice Ranzini (0000-0003-1350-901X, Politecnico di Milano, corresponding author), Serena Olcuire (0000-0002-7403-4321, Sapienza University of Rome) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 170 |
| Pages | 106639-106639 |
| Publication date | 2025-11-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0264-2751 • E-ISSN: 1873-6084 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.cities.2025.106639 |
| OpenAlex | W7104623699 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 35 |
The processes of urban space regeneration aimed at enhancing a city's attractiveness to international tourist flows are increasingly accompanied by the removal and control of vulnerable bodies. Despite rhetoric promoting the narrative of inclusive urban environments, these processes restrict living spaces and limit certain groups' access to the city, marking their identities, physicality, and ways of life as out of place. Consequently, the city, shaped by the tourist's gaze, becomes increasingly exclusionary. This article explores the potential coexistence of an attractive and inclusive city by critically analysing these processes through the theoretical framework of visibility. Discussing the multiple implications of visibility as a tool of spatial governance in terms of recognition, identification and control of bodies and identities, it emphasises the need to establish and preserve spaces of coexistence between light and shadow, ensuring protection and invisibility for marginalised and stigmatised subjects to acknowledge their presence in the urban landscape.
Attractiveness · City region · Corporate governance · Invisibility · Narrative · Rhetoric · Right to the city · Space (punctuation) · Tourism · Urban planning · Urban regeneration · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Smart Cities and Technologies · Spatial and Cultural Studies · Urban Planning and Governance
Keynote Address
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Racial Uplift? Intra‐Racial Class Conflict and the Economic Revitalization of Harlem and Bronzeville
Anti-Muslim racism and the racialisation of sexual violence
Urban multiculture and xenophonophobia in London and Berlin
The struggle for public space
From displacement to displaceability
Missing Marcuse
Financial geography II
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On the Stickiness of Territorial Stigma
Not diverse enough? Displacement, diversity discourse, and commercial gentrification in Santa Ana, California, a majority-Mexican city
Being visible in public space
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Visibilities and Invisibilities in Urban Development
The Politics of Forgetting
Economic Transformations of Gay Urban Spaces
Visibility as Justice
Urban Informality
Conceptualizing Resistance
Peek-A-Boo, We See You Too
Other Figures in Other Places
Queer Ecology
Lived Difference
Ethnicity and the Multicultural City
The Right to the Gendered City
Rethinking the Public Sphere
Sex Zones
Visibility
Criminal Sounds-Primitive Sounds
Institutions of Privacy in the Determination of Police Administrative Practice
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |