Gentrifying tourism in heritage cities. Exclusion and urban-architectural transformation in Guanajuato, Mexico

Gentrifying tourism in heritage cities. Exclusion and urban-architectural transformation in Guanajuato, Mexico

Numerous historic city centers in Latin America have been gentrified as the result of tourist activities. This is the case of several heritage Mexican cities that transformed their uses and spaces according to the consumption needs of visitors. This paper explores this trend in one of its most compl...

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Main Author: Navarrete Escobedo, David
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Published: Revista INVI 2017
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spelling oai:ojs.revistas.uchile.cl:article-627312017-11-27T11:37:21Z Gentrifying tourism in heritage cities. Exclusion and urban-architectural transformation in Guanajuato, Mexico Turismo gentrificador en ciudades patrimoniales. Exclusión y transformaciones urbano-arquitectónicas del patrimonio en Guanajuato, México Navarrete Escobedo, David Numerous historic city centers in Latin America have been gentrified as the result of tourist activities. This is the case of several heritage Mexican cities that transformed their uses and spaces according to the consumption needs of visitors. This paper explores this trend in one of its most complete manifestations: luxury hotels as a tool in the transformation of the heritage of the city. Analysis of the case of Guanajuato (west-central Mexico) reviews the main architectural and urban transformations derived from the gentrification of heritage tourist cities. The new tourist uses modify heritage and traditional typologies, giving rise to a façade-based architecture and exacerbate social exclusion and fragmentation processes in historic centers. Luxury tourism emerges as a contradictory transforming factor as it may threaten the natural, heritage and social resources that sustain this activity. In this context, the State, the market and a weak citizenship are deciding factors. En América Latina numerosos centros históricos experimentan diversos grados de gentrificación asociada al turismo. Es el caso de varias ciudades mexicanas patrimonializadas, que transforman sus usos y espacios al consumo de visitantes. Este trabajo explora dicha tendencia en una de sus más acabadas expresiones: la hotelería de lujo como vector transformador de la vocación del patrimonio construido de una ciudad. Por medio del caso de Guanajuato (centro-oeste de México), se analizan las principales transformaciones arquitectónicas y urbanas que derivan de una elitización de las ciudades turísticas patrimoniales. Los nuevos usos turísticos cambian de forma importante las tipologías patrimoniales y tradicionales, generando una arquitectura fachadista al mismo tiempo que acentúan procesos de exclusión y fragmentación social en los centros históricos en los que se implantan. El turismo de élite se muestra como un factor transformador de la ciudad, no sin contradicciones pues los recursos culturales, patrimoniales y sociales, de los que depende el prestigio del destino pueden verse amenazados por la explotación turística. En tales procesos el Estado, el mercado y una débil ciudadanía aparecen como factores determinantes. Revista INVI 2017-05-08 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf application/xml application/octet-stream https://revistainvi.uchile.cl/index.php/INVI/article/view/62731 Revista INVI; Vol. 32 Núm. 89 (2017); 61-83 0718-8358 0718-1299 spa https://revistainvi.uchile.cl/index.php/INVI/article/view/62731/66650 https://revistainvi.uchile.cl/index.php/INVI/article/view/62731/66670 https://revistainvi.uchile.cl/index.php/INVI/article/view/62731/66699 Derechos de autor 2017 Revista INVI
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Gentrifying tourism in heritage cities. Exclusion and urban-architectural transformation in Guanajuato, Mexico
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title Gentrifying tourism in heritage cities. Exclusion and urban-architectural transformation in Guanajuato, Mexico
title_short Gentrifying tourism in heritage cities. Exclusion and urban-architectural transformation in Guanajuato, Mexico
title_full Gentrifying tourism in heritage cities. Exclusion and urban-architectural transformation in Guanajuato, Mexico
title_fullStr Gentrifying tourism in heritage cities. Exclusion and urban-architectural transformation in Guanajuato, Mexico
title_full_unstemmed Gentrifying tourism in heritage cities. Exclusion and urban-architectural transformation in Guanajuato, Mexico
title_sort gentrifying tourism in heritage cities. exclusion and urban-architectural transformation in guanajuato, mexico
description Numerous historic city centers in Latin America have been gentrified as the result of tourist activities. This is the case of several heritage Mexican cities that transformed their uses and spaces according to the consumption needs of visitors. This paper explores this trend in one of its most complete manifestations: luxury hotels as a tool in the transformation of the heritage of the city. Analysis of the case of Guanajuato (west-central Mexico) reviews the main architectural and urban transformations derived from the gentrification of heritage tourist cities. The new tourist uses modify heritage and traditional typologies, giving rise to a façade-based architecture and exacerbate social exclusion and fragmentation processes in historic centers. Luxury tourism emerges as a contradictory transforming factor as it may threaten the natural, heritage and social resources that sustain this activity. In this context, the State, the market and a weak citizenship are deciding factors.
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