Airbnb has helped turn major cities around the world into theme parks for tourists and resorts for the rich. This book shows how one of the protagonists of the so-called "digital platform capitalism" - Airbnb - has concrete and devastating effects on urban space, on life and on the city. Airbnb is, in fact, a powerful technological instrument that fuels an enormous process of social transformation: from San Francisco to New York, from Lisbon to Rome, the touristification of cities produces the expulsion of residents and the modification of activities in favor of a tourism of the past based on consumption, with the consequent disruption of the social, economic and emotional life that has always accompanied coexistence in the metropolis. The dimension of community, neighborhood and bond disappears to give way to a new model of real estate capitalism. Airbnb Ciudad Mercancía recounts som...read more