Lviv and especially its central part is one of the most popular points of tourist attraction in Ukraine. However, since Soviet times, the center of the city had been a place of leisure for the residents of Lviv, many of whom from a working-class background. In the last decade, this ...
(Show more)Lviv and especially its central part is one of the most popular points of tourist attraction in Ukraine. However, since Soviet times, the center of the city had been a place of leisure for the residents of Lviv, many of whom from a working-class background. In the last decade, this situation changed, as a single company takes over the restaurants, bars, cafes, etc. all over the central Lviv, transforming the places from affordable for the majority of Lviv residents and guests to tourist-oriented. Such changes produce social exclusion, especially in terms of leisure. Our paper aims to analyze these processes through the prism of urban political economy, namely David Harvey's thesis on the accumulation of capital in space, as well as urban regime theories, which focus on the interconnection between private and public actors in the city. Apart from addressing the mechanisms of the urban transformation, we reveal their outcomes, such as two types of socio-spatial exclusion - exclusion in leisure and consumption (so-called soft gentrification) and in terms of residency ('classic' gentrification).
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