Main image: Manchester and other Northern cities have been significantly outpacing their Southern counterparts this year
Airbnb and the short-term rental revolution – how English cities are suffering
As a developer in Edinburgh launches a set of luxury flats with a special preventative clause in the title deeds, and Paris mulls a complete ban, Jonathan Silver examines how the short-term rental phenomenon is changing the fabric of our urban centres...
Jonathan is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow undertaking a project on ‘Postcolonial urbanisms and a comparative theory of infrastructure’. He joined the Urban Institute in November 2016 having gained his doctorate from the Department of Geography, Durham University following degrees from University of Leeds (BA Hons) and University of Manchester (MA). Prior to his appointment he had worked on a number of research projects at the London School of Economics and Durham University.
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