And 10/ I introduce "platform gentrification" as a framework to rethink how algorithms and data reshape cities through exclusion, aesthetics, and value extraction.
📄 Full paper here: doi.org/10.12688/ope...
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9/ Fourth: Displacement.
Platform gentrification doesn’t just evict—it deletes.
📈 Anticipated: rising algorithmic prices push people out early.
🖼️ Semiotic: you no longer see yourself in the neighbourhood.
📲 Digital: if you’re not on the app, you don’t exist.

8/ Third: Landscape transformation.
Not physical, but algorithmic.
Instagram, TikTok, Google Maps: they aestheticise the city through visual repetition.
The city becomes Instagram serialised, filtered, and globally recognisable.

7/ Second: New social groups.
The gentrifier isn’t a bohemian artist or creative worker.
It’s the `digital nomad´, the tech expat, the global freelancer.
This “technology-gentrifier class” turns their lifestyle into symbolic urban dominance.

6/ First: Capital reinvestment.
In platform gentrification, value is extracted without renovation.
Digital infrastructures—AirDNA, Transparent, PriceLabs—now act as invisible real estate infrastructures, guiding investment through predictive data, not bricks.
The landlord is now an algorithm.

5/ In this new urban regime:
🏘 Capital is reinvested via algorithms, not renovations
👤 New users are mobile, connected, digital elites
🖼 Landscapes are reconfigured through filters and feeds
🚫 Displacement is anticipatory, semiotic, and digital

4/ To ground this idea, I revisit the four canonical dimensions of gentrification (Mark Davidson & @lorettaclees.bsky.social:
1⃣ Capital reinvestment
2⃣ Class upgrading
3⃣ Landscape change
4⃣ Displacement
... and reinterpret them within the multi-platform city.

3/ The concept builds upon and seeks to bring together valuable insights from existing debates on tourism gentrification, touristification, transnational gentrification, and housing assetization—offering a way to connect and deepen discussions that are sometimes treated in isolation.

2/ Published as “Platform gentrification: The production of urban inequalities in the on-demand city”, this paper argues that platform infrastructures—Airbnb, Uber, Instagram, etc.—are not passive mediators but active producers of urban inequalities.