Unexpected urban comparisons: Airbnb-ization in Cape Town, South Africa, and Broward County's coastal cities, Florida, United States

IF 6 1区经济学 Q1 URBAN STUDIES Cities Pub Date : 2024-10-16 DOI:10.1016/j.cities.2024.105455

Richard Grant , Haozheng Zu , Shouraseni Sen Roy

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This paper employs an atypical comparative approach to investigate the significant influence of Airbnb in two distinct urban areas: Cape Town, South Africa, and Broward County, Florida, USA. Despite differing national histories and contexts, both locations share commonalities as tourist hotspots with robust facilities and attractions and lack strict Airbnb rental regulations. Leveraging open-source data from InsideAirbnb, OpenStreet Map, and census data, we utilize geospatial analysis and geovisualizations to evaluate various factors, including urban amenities, neighborhood cultural capital, accommodation types, pricing, and review scores. Optimized hot spot analysis reveals areas of high and low activity related to urban amenities. In Broward County, Airbnb hotspots align with the coast and Interstate Highway 95, following a uniform pattern. In Cape Town, they cluster within affluent neighborhoods inside Motorway 3. Word cloud analysis of positive comments highlights customer experiences related to coastal proximity, tourist attractions, dwelling amenities, and host responsiveness in Cape Town.

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意想不到的城市比较：南非开普敦和美国佛罗里达州布劳沃德县沿海城市的 Airbnb 化

本文采用一种非典型的比较方法来研究 Airbnb 在两个不同城市地区的重大影响：南非开普敦和美国佛罗里达州布劳沃德县。尽管国家历史和背景不同，但这两个地方都是旅游热点地区，拥有完善的设施和景点，并且缺乏严格的 Airbnb 租赁法规。利用来自 InsideAirbnb、OpenStreet Map 和人口普查数据的开源数据，我们利用地理空间分析和地理可视化来评估各种因素，包括城市设施、社区文化资本、住宿类型、价格和评论分数。优化的热点分析揭示了与城市设施相关的高活跃度和低活跃度区域。在布劳沃德县，Airbnb 热点与海岸线和 95 号州际公路保持一致。在开普敦，这些热点聚集在 3 号高速公路内的富人区。对正面评论的词云分析突出显示了客户对开普敦沿海地区、旅游景点、住宅设施和房东响应能力的体验。

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Cities URBAN STUDIES-

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期刊介绍： Cities offers a comprehensive range of articles on all aspects of urban policy. It provides an international and interdisciplinary platform for the exchange of ideas and information between urban planners and policy makers from national and local government, non-government organizations, academia and consultancy. The primary aims of the journal are to analyse and assess past and present urban development and management as a reflection of effective, ineffective and non-existent planning policies; and the promotion of the implementation of appropriate urban policies in both the developed and the developing world.