•The paper discusses the concept of place-based displacement within the context of touristification.•It explores how tourism disintegrates the places people belong to and how this affects ...people.•Short-term rentals and housing market disruptions are insufficient in understanding why communities resist tourism.•Touristification is not primary a housing question, but a broader process of place transformation.•Acknowledging place-based displacement should open new lines of public policy.
Relying on extensive fieldwork, in this paper I give voice to long-term residents in the city center of Barcelona, Spain, and explore how they feel about the tourism-led transformation of the place in which they live. I found that the alteration of the place causes the breaking down of emotional and material attachments that people have with the area and, in turn, the process leads to feelings of expulsion and mental distress. Therefore, I discuss the concept of place-based displacement within the context of touristification, and suggest that housing market disruptions caused by tourism and short-term rentals are insufficient in understanding why communities resist and oppose the penetration of tourism in their places. Drawing on the conceptualization of displacement as suggested by gentrification scholars and from contributions regarding the psychology of place, the paper argues that, regardless of whether spatial dislocation takes place, touristification disintegrates the places people belong to and rely on for their daily lives, which therefore leads communities to experience disruptions to their mental health as well as feelings of dispossession, anger, and frustration.
In recent years, the proliferation of tourists in the urban environment has generated several issues in the functioning of cities. As urban tourism has historically been linked to cultural and ...architectural attractions, this increased tourism pressure has involved and often compromised the common heritage uses. Therefore, many cases saw the implementation of measures that, if on the one hand reduced tourist flows, on the other also drastically restricted the access for residents and totally altered the sense of place in the community. This article explores this topic by applying a Critical Discourse Analysis methodology to the dispute that took place in Barcelona regarding the restricted access to Park Güell. The main results of this work concern the instrumentalisation of both the UNESCO label and participatory processes in the case of Barcelona, along with the failure of regulative measures to solve the problems related to tourism pressure. The article advocates the usage of more qualitative-oriented analyses to address the relationships between urban planning, heritage management and tourism management.
This article shows the methodology and the main figures of the local and regional economic impact generated by cruise activity. This article is pioneering in combining different issues: estimating ...the impact of the cruise port activity, presenting these impacts disaggregated at a sectoral level, using a rigorous methodology and carrying out extensive fieldwork. It is demonstrated that all sectors, not just traditional tourism-related sectors, benefit from cruise tourism. In order to test and apply our methodology we focus the analysis on the Port of Barcelona, which has become the leading cruise port in the Mediterranean area.
This work explores the double effect of urban compactness on building energy performance in a Mediterranean climate, namely the increase of urban heat island (UHI) intensity and the decrease of solar ...radiation availability on building façades. The energy demand of a test apartment has been calculated under varying conditions of UHI intensity and solar radiation for different urban textures. Results show robust relationships between the energy demand and the ‘site coverage ratio’ of the buildings. This demonstrates that compact urban textures are more energy efficient than less dense urban patterns in a Mediterranean climate.
Theories and concepts for understanding the political logic of social movements' everyday activities, particularly those which relate directly to political goals, have been increasingly important ...since the late 1970s. The notion of 'prefigurative politics' is becoming established in this debate and refers to scenarios where protesters express the political 'ends' of their actions through their 'means', or where they create experimental or 'alternative' social arrangements or institutions. Both meanings share the idea that prefiguration anticipates or partially actualises goals sought by movements. This article uses narratives and observations gathered in social movement 'free spaces', autonomous social centres in Barcelona, to evaluate, critique and rearticulate the concept. Participants' attention to the 'means' through which protest is carried out and emphasis on projects such as experimentation with alternative social and organisational forms suggest they engage in prefigurative politics. However, the article uses these examples to dispute the key ways through which prefiguration has been defined, arguing that it can better be deployed in referring to the relations, and tensions, between a set of political priorities. Understood as such, prefigurative politics combines five processes: collective experimentation, the imagining, production and circulation of political meanings, the creating of new and future-oriented social norms or 'conduct', their consolidation in movement infrastructure, and the diffusion and contamination of ideas, messages and goals to wider networks and constituencies.
La reconversión del terreno industrial de la Maquinista Terrestre y Marítima es una operación de desarrollo urbano que se llevó a cabo entre los años 1998 y 2002 en Barcelona. Esta operación se ...alinea con otras operaciones desarrolladas en los últimos años del siglo XX en la ciudad y se relaciona con el último periodo del llamado Modelo Barcelona. El artículo presente trata de alumbrar la gestación, desarrollo y ejecución del Plan, así como analizar los efectos que ha tenido la operación sobre su entorno inmediato. El artículo evidenciará la naturaleza especulativa de la Operación y su relación programática con las políticas de áreas de nueva centralidad, y más concretamente con el plan Sagrera Sant-Andreu: un plan que pretende suturar la ciudad por allí donde discurre la red ferroviaria en dirección Norte. Por otro lado, en el texto se analiza el efecto segregador de la operación, que quedará materializada tanto en el tejido urbano del territorio, como en sus indicadores sociodemográficos.
challenges of advanced hepatocellular carcinoma Colagrande, Stefano; Inghilesi, Andrea L; Aburas, Sami ...
World journal of gastroenterology : WJG,
09/2016, Letnik:
22, Številka:
34
Journal Article
Odprti dostop
Hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC) is an aggressive malignancy,resulting as the third cause of death by cancer each year. The management of patients with HCC is complex,as both the tumour stage and any ...underlying liver disease must be considered conjointly. Although surveillance by imaging,clinical and biochemical parameters is routinely performed,a lot of patients suffering from cirrhosis have an advanced stage HCC at the first diagnosis. Advanced stage HCC includes heterogeneous groups of patients with different clinical condition and radiological features and sorafenib is the only approved treatment according to Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer. Since the introduction of sorafenib in clinical practice,several phase Ⅲ clinical trials have failed to demonstrate any superiority over sorafenib in the frontline setting. Locoregional therapies have also been tested as first line treatment,but their role in advanced HCC is still matter of debate. No single agent or combination therapies have been shown to impact outcomes after sorafenib failure. Therefore this review will focus on the range of experimental therapeutics for patients with advanced HCC and highlights the successes and failures of these treatments as well as areas for future development. Specifics such as dose limiting toxicity and safety profile in patients with liver dysfunction related to the underlying chronic liver disease should be considered when developing therapies in HCC. Finally,robust validated and reproducible surrogate end-points as well as predictive biomarkers should be defined in future randomized trials.
El objetivo de este artículo es contribuir a la historiografía del contexto artístico de Barcelona de las últimas décadas. Para ello toma como caso de estudio el periodo de formación del Centre d'Art ...Santa Mònica (CASM). El CASM se estableció como centro de arte en Barcelona entre 2003 y 2007 siguiendo el modelo "Kunsthalle". El autor busca establecer la adecuación del centro en un mapa institucional dedicado al arte contemporáneo que estaba en construcción y desarrollo. El artículo también establece un paralelismo entre el CASM y los modelos de trabajo en la producción artística en el contexto internacional antes de la crisis de 2008. Además, busca situar históricamente el modelo instituido por el CASM en el origen del debate sobre la necesidad de un centro de arte en Barcelona. La investigación se basa en fuentes y documentos originales, reconstruyendo la historia del CASM en relación con otras instituciones paralelas en Barcelona y concluye con un análisis de los efectos y consecuencias de la interferencia política en el contexto institucional del arte de la ciudad.
This paper explores how the so-called Bilbao effect and Barcelona Model are diffused internationally through what may be called urban policy tourism: short trips made to Bilbao and Barcelona by ...policy-makers to learn from their regeneration in the past 15 years. The paper reveals for the first time the substantial extent of this practice and contextualises it within a wider phenomenon of urban policy transfer and the international 'motion' of urban policies. Although both models are internationally known for a set of elements, this research shows that in fact the messages mutate and shift as they circulate through the policy circuits. Ultimately, however, the popularity of the Bilbao and Barcelona models suggests a process of global urban policy convergence.
Seventy two (54.5%) out of 132 fecal samples were positive for
either extended spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBL) (51.5%),
carbapenemase (1.5%) or cephamycinase (1.5%) producing
Escherichia coli from a ...group of yellow-legged gulls in
Barcelona, Spain. The isolation of two carbapenemase-producing
E. coli strains is a matter of concern.
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