Cambios económicos, movilidad residencial y gentrificación en la ciudad de Valencia (2014-2017)

The aim of this article is to identify recent changes in the socio-demographic structure of
the city of Valencia, Spain, resulting from the economic transformations the city experienced
in the post-crisis period and, in particular, due to the touristification process that certain
urban areas have undergone. To this end, the territorial pattern of residential changes
in the interior of the central city during the period 2014–2017 is analyzed and related to
the spatial distribution of tourist activity and the location of recent urban development
projects as a way of approaching this phenomenon in the city as a whole. A novel methodology
is proposed for the treatment of demographic microdata on residential mobility.
The article concludes with a typology of areas within the city that helps to understand the
different territorial dynamics that have given rise to gentrification processes of different
structure and intensity.
Keywords: gentrification; residential change; tourism; Valencia