BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Columba Systems Ltd//NONSGML CPNG/SpringViewer/ICal Output/3.3- M3//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200220T102551Z DTSTART:20200318T130000Z DTEND:20200318T143000Z SUMMARY:PEM Seminar Series - Dr Claire Colomb\, University College London --“Our city is not for sale”. The politics of regulation of platform-med iated short-term holiday rentals in European cities UID:{http://www.columbasystems.com/customers/uom/gpp/eventid/}dfr-k0cfsod r-ao5srs DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nIn the space of a few years\, short-term (“holiday ”) rentals have become a contentious issue in many cities around the wor ld. Their proliferation was facilitated by the emergence of new forms of ‘platform capitalism’ shaped by for-profit online platforms which organ ise supply and demand and take a commission for intermediation – the mos t well-known being Airbnb. The issue of platform-mediated short-term ren tals (PM-STR) has become widely discussed in the media and local politic al arenas. Actors as diverse as grassroots movements and professional ho tel associations have begun to challenge the impacts of PM-STR on neighb ourhoods\, housing markets\, residents\, and incumbent economic actors. As a result\, some city governments have recently passed new regulations attempting to control the proliferation of STR and the activities of pl atforms. In the European context\, the responses of city governments hav e been very diverse. I will present the first results of a research proj ect (carried out in collaboration with Dr Tatiana Moreira\, Dr Francesca Artioli and Dr Thomas Aguilera) which seeks to explore and compare the politicization and collective mobilization process around PM-STR in Euro pe\, the diversity of emerging forms of regulation in 12 large European cities\, and the challenging enforcement and implementation of such regu latory attempts. \n\nNewly developed policy responses\, we argue\, are n ot only the mere result of different structural political-economic condi tions. By adopting on a sociological approach to public policy analysis\ , we looked comparatively at how the struggle between collective actors with various interests\, modes of action and narratives - embedded into place-specific institutional arrangements – can help to explain the diff erences in the regulations passed in various cities. Three main findings emerge. First\, the diversity of regulation of PM-STR among cities can be explained by the type of actors who politicized the issue in the firs t place and framed it within a specific policy sector (housing\, tourism \, economic development)\, the pre-existing policy instruments tradition ally used in that sector\, and the distribution of competences between t he city and other tiers of government (region and/or central state). Sec ond\, both the policy framing and the enacted regulations (namely their very existence\, legitimacy\, degree of stringency and instruments) rema in an unstable and contested matter\, because they are subject to intens e political mobilisation by six types of actors: professional STR operat ors\, associations of hosts or ‘home-sharers’\, the hotel industry\, res idents’ associations or citizens’ movements\, ‘sharing economy’ advocate s\, and corporate platforms. These actors (pre-existing or new) have cla shing interests and construct different narratives regarding the urban l and use and the economic activity represented by PM-STR. In so doing\, t hey discursively claim different types of ‘rights’ in this contentious p olitics of regulation. In this process\, Airbnb and other major platform s act as ‘regulatory entrepreneurs’ (Pollman and Barry\, 2017)\, and\, w e argue\, have become a new significant urban governance actor. Finally\ , I will show how the intense local conflicts around the politics of reg ulation are undergoing both a process of judicialization and of rescalin g towards the European Union level.\n\nReferences:\n• Aguilera\, T.\, Ar tioli\, F. & Colomb\, C. (2019) Explaining the diversity of policy respo nses to platform-mediated short-term rentals in European cities: a compa rison of Barcelona\, Paris and Milan\, Environment and Planning A\, DOI: 10.1177/0308518X19862286.\n• Aguilera\, T.\, Artioli F.\, and Colomb\, C . (2019) Les villes contre Airbnb? Locations meublées de courte durée\, plateformes numériques et gouvernance urbaine : enjeux de régulation dan s les villes européennes. In : Courmont\, A. and Le Galès\, P. (eds) Gou verner la Ville Numérique. Paris: PUF - Vie des Idées.\n• Colomb\, C. an d Moreira\, Regulating platform-mediated short-term rentals in large Eur opean cities: debates\, policy approaches and implementation challenges. Report for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Research Trust (forthcoming\, 2020\, https://www.rics.org/uk/news-insight/research/rese arch-trust/)\n• Novy\, J. & Colomb\, C. (2019) Urban tourism as a source of contention and social mobilisations: a critical review\, Tourism Pla nning & Development\, 16(4): 358-375.\n\n STATUS:TENTATIVE TRANSP:TRANSPARENT CLASS:PUBLIC LOCATION:G.030/31\, Arthur Lewis Building\, Architecture and Planning\, M anchester END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR