TY - JOUR TI - Cultural tourism pressure on historic centres: Its impact on public space and intervention strategies for its mitigation. Florence, Italy, as a case study AU - Del Bianco, Corinna AU - Montedoro, Laura TI - Cultural tourism pressure on historic centres: Its impact on public space and intervention strategies for its mitigation. Florence, Italy, as a case study AB - In recent decades, mass cultural tourism has imposed itself on European historic centres’ various economies without planning or a clear direction. Today, it is evident that this specific development within tourism is not sustainable and has generated a series of problems. Public space is a mirror of these transformations – congested, dirtied, polluted and impoverished of its traditional richness of co-presences and plurality of uses, it clearly demonstrates the limitations and problems that plague tourist cities. Following the temporary cessation of travel due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, tourism is now among the economic sectors undergoing a major recovery. This paper first broadly outlines a theoretical framework of overtourism. Then, it presents a case study of Florence, Italy, exploring the possible ways in which to mitigate the impact of tourist flows in the historic centre by designing public space in a sustainable manner that caters to the needs of both tourists and inhabitants. VL - 2023 IS - 42/2023 PY - 2023 SN - 1731-2442 C1 - 2543-8700 SP - 80 EP - 86 DO - 10.4467/25438700SM.23.006.17807 UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/srodowisko-mieszkaniowe/article/cultural-tourism-pressure-on-historic-centres-its-impact-on-public-space-and-intervention-strategies-for-its-mitigation-florence-italy-as-a-case-study KW - public space KW - Florence KW - overtourism