VIZ: How Airbnb invaded Lisbon (book "Lisboa e a Airbnb", June 2019)
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How Airbnb invaded Lisbon
Original title in Portuguese: Como o Airbnb invadiu Lisboa
By Luís Carvalho, Ana Gago, Thiago Mendes and Pedro Chamusca. Published in their book "Lisboa e a Airbnb" in June 2019
Reproduced in the story "Airbnb em Lisboa. Número de alojamentos passa de 3 para 49 mil em nove anos", by Joana Nunes Mateus. Published in Expresso on 27 July 2019
Keywords: Lisbon, Portugal, Airbnb, tourism, tourist apartments, tourist flats
This visualisation is also useful because it's a very graphic way of showing the increase in the number and the spread of short-term rentals across a city.
Getting data from Inside Airbnb, it should be easy to replicate in other cities.
Animating it as a GIF instead than presenting it as a series of static images is another possibility.
Publishing a series of visualisations of several cities covering the same years is another possibility.