Ruiz Romera, AndreaVillar Lama, ArsenioPuche Ruiz, María del CarmenFernández Tabales, Alfonso2025-06-242025-06-242025Ruiz Romera, A., Villar Lama, A., Puche Ruiz, M.C. y Fernández Tabales, A. (2025). Making the city uninhabitable. The impacts of touristification on the commercial environment. Cities, 165. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2025.106080.https://hdl.handle.net/11441/174612This article examines touristification's impact on the commercial environment of urban centres, specifically on the reorientation of this environment towards the interests of visitors to the detriment of those of locals. It introduces and tests a new methodology for measuring tourism-related commercial transformations, using Seville (Andalusia, Spain) as a case study. This methodology classifies commercial activities based on their greater or lesser connection to tourist consumption and it uses Google Street View to learn about the commercial environment of previous periods (2008 and 2019, in this research) as points of comparison to the current situation (2023). The results show the growing functional specialisation of tourist activities align with a broader trend observed in European historical centres, which are gradually becoming monocultural tourist destinations. The article's main contribution is a novel methodology that is replicable in other historical cities undergoing touristification.application/pdf12engAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/OvertourismFoodificationUrban landscapeCommercial geographyGoogle Street ViewSeville (AndalusiaSpain)info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2025.106080