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Title	Smarter City, Less Just Destination? Mobilities And Social Gaps In Barcelona
ID_Doc	51839
Authors	Brandajs F.; Russo A.P.
Year	2023
Published	Journal of Place Management and Development, 16, 2
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JPMD-03-2022-0020
Abstract	Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to introduce a critical framework to analyse how “smart” plays out in tourism places. Moving from a recognition of the strategies, expected impacts and imageries of Smart City, the authors engage with the mobilities literature to identify pitfalls in the quest of “smartening up” cities for hypermobile populations. Design/methodology/approach: The study adopted a set of geoanalytical techniques to establish the potential relationship between the territorial upgrade of mobility and the socio-economic change processes the city of Barcelona is experiencing. Findings: The paper suggests the effect of “smart” in cities could indeed be one of economic recovery; however, one triggering fundamental transformation of the social fabric of the city, whose most evident facet is the creation of globalised functional enclaves that may be forcefields of exclusion for the most vulnerable populations. Originality/value: This paper contributes to a new stream of critical research on “smart” with a strong focus on the power of mobilities and mobility systems, whose digital enhancement plays out as a leveraging agent of new place connections and negotiations for short-term populations, but at the same time, may exclude disadvantaged subjects in their capacity to access and afford the system network. © 2023, Fiammetta Brandajs and Antonio Paolo Russo.
Author Keywords	Agency; Mobility injustice; Smart cities; Socio-demographic change; Tourism mobilities

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