Urban transformation in the Chueca neighbourhood (Madrid): from deterioration to gay gentrification and touristification

María García-Hernández, Manuel de la Calle Vaquero and Carmen Mínguez

Chapter 12 in Handbook on Tourism Gentrification, 2025, pp 201-221 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter aims to present the urban transformations that have taken place in the Chueca neighbourhood, Madrid, in the last 40 years. From a deteriorated and marginal neighborhood in the 1980s, it has experienced profound changes related to the establishment of the gay community that triggered a gentrification process parallel to the urban recovery and patrimonialisation induced by public policies. The study carried out is based on the hypothesis that tourism is the key factor that determines the current social processes of change. We are facing a new stage related to the important changes induced by the touristification of the neighbourhood, which is now expelling the former gentrifiers. The text also reflects on the synergies and contradictions between deterioration-gentrification, gentrification-gaytrification and touristification-gay tourism.

Keywords: Gentrification; Gaytrification; Touristification; Gay tourism; Chueca (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035327348
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