Fluctuating (in)visibility. Addressing the gap between the attractive city and the inclusive city

The processes of urban space regeneration aimed at enhancing a city's attractiveness to international tourist flows are increasingly accompanied by the removal and control of vulnerable bodies. Despite rhetoric promoting the narrative of inclusive urban environments, these processes restrict living spaces and limit certain groups' access to the city, marking their identities, physicality, and ways of life as out of place. Consequently, the city, shaped by the tourist's gaze, becomes increasingly exclusionary. This article explores the potential coexistence of an attractive and inclusive city by critically analysing these processes through the theoretical framework of visibility. Discussing the multiple implications of visibility as a tool of spatial governance in terms of recognition, identification and control of bodies and identities, it emphasises the need to establish and preserve spaces of coexistence between light and shadow, ensuring protection and invisibility for marginalised and stigmatised subjects to acknowledge their presence in the urban landscape.