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Exploring Nightlife and Urban Change in Bairro Alto, Lisbon1

Exploring Nightlife and Urban Change in Bairro Alto, Lisbon1 Exploring Nightlife and Urban Change in Bairro Alto, Lisbon Jordi Nofre, Inigo ˜ Sanchez-Fuarros, ´ Joao ˜ Carlos Martins, Patr´ıcia Pereira, and Isabel Soares New University of Lisbon Daniel Malet-Calvo Lisbon University Institute Miguel Geraldes and Ana Lopez ´ D´ıaz University of Lisbon INTRODUCTION Over the last three decades culture has played a central role in the urban renewal of many cities worldwide. The inner city has thus become a socially, politically controlled “theatre of consumption” (Ritzer 2010). Correspondingly, the urban night has emerged not only as a significant space–time of productive economic activity but also as a key strategy in the urban regeneration of downtowns (Chatterton and Hollands 2003; Farrer 2008, 2011; Hae 2011, 2012; Tadie´ and Permanadeli 2015; among others). In some Southern Euro- pean cities the rise of new urban nightscapes in their historical neighborhoods (Crivello ´ ´ 2009; Garcıa-Perez 2014; Nofre 2013) is largely connected to urban, social, and economic impacts caused by the neoliberalization of the city (Brenner and Theodore 2005). This is the case of Bairro Alto in Lisbon (Portugal), where the university student and tourist nightlife in this historical neighborhood of the Portuguese capital may be seen as part of a broader http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City & Community (Fixed 2) SAGE

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SAGE
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© 2017 American Sociological Association
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1535-6841
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1540-6040
DOI
10.1111/cico.12248
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Exploring Nightlife and Urban Change in Bairro Alto, Lisbon Jordi Nofre, Inigo ˜ Sanchez-Fuarros, ´ Joao ˜ Carlos Martins, Patr´ıcia Pereira, and Isabel Soares New University of Lisbon Daniel Malet-Calvo Lisbon University Institute Miguel Geraldes and Ana Lopez ´ D´ıaz University of Lisbon INTRODUCTION Over the last three decades culture has played a central role in the urban renewal of many cities worldwide. The inner city has thus become a socially, politically controlled “theatre of consumption” (Ritzer 2010). Correspondingly, the urban night has emerged not only as a significant space–time of productive economic activity but also as a key strategy in the urban regeneration of downtowns (Chatterton and Hollands 2003; Farrer 2008, 2011; Hae 2011, 2012; Tadie´ and Permanadeli 2015; among others). In some Southern Euro- pean cities the rise of new urban nightscapes in their historical neighborhoods (Crivello ´ ´ 2009; Garcıa-Perez 2014; Nofre 2013) is largely connected to urban, social, and economic impacts caused by the neoliberalization of the city (Brenner and Theodore 2005). This is the case of Bairro Alto in Lisbon (Portugal), where the university student and tourist nightlife in this historical neighborhood of the Portuguese capital may be seen as part of a broader

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Published: Sep 1, 2017

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