LGBTQ+ neighbourhoods and venues in our cities have fulfilled many vital functions for LGBTQ+ people and for society as a whole. Generally identified through the concentration of consumption spaces that host meetings between LGBTQ+ people, they have a great symbolic value in the fight for their rights and against intolerance. At a time when doubts arise about their future, there are far fewer spatial, quantitative and systematic analyses of these concentration patterns, especially from an international and comparative approach to the phenomenon. The digitisation of our daily lives generates big data that make possible avenues of research that were hitherto impossible, not only in detail and extent, but also in the nature of the questions to answer. In this article, we analyse Foursquare location-based social big data to quantify and spatialise clustering patterns of queer places and symbolic capital in four LGBTQ+ neighbourhoods (Castro in San Francisco, Soho in London, Chueca in Madrid and Le Marais in Paris) and take similar spaces with no LGBTQ+ identity as a reference. In doing so, the greater accumulation of symbolic capital in LGBTQ+ spaces is revealed and measured in these four cities. In future, similar studies could capture trends like the gentrification of these environments, to help policymakers make data-driven decisions to promote more inclusive and diverse cities.

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卡斯特罗、苏荷区、楚埃卡、玛黑区。象征性资本积累的酷儿城市空间的国际方法


我们城市中的 LGBTQ+ 社区和场所为 LGBTQ+ 人群和整个社会履行了许多重要职能。通常通过举办 LGBTQ+ 人群聚会的消费空间集中来识别，它们在争取权利和反对不宽容的斗争中具有巨大的象征价值。当人们对其未来产生怀疑时，对这些集中模式的空间、定量和系统分析要少得多，特别是从国际比较方法来分析这一现象。我们日常生活的数字化产生了大数据，使迄今为止不可能的研究途径成为可能，不仅在细节和范围上，而且在要回答的问题的性质上也是如此。在本文中，我们分析了 Foursquare 基于位置的社交大数据，以量化和空间化四个 LGBTQ+ 社区（旧金山的卡斯特罗、伦敦的 Soho、马德里的 Chueca 和巴黎的 Le Marais）中酷儿场所和象征资本的聚类模式，并采取没有 LGBTQ+ 身份的类似空间作为参考。在此过程中，LGBTQ+ 空间中象征性资本的更大积累在这四个城市中得到揭示和衡量。未来，类似的研究可以捕捉这些环境的中产阶级化等趋势，以帮助政策制定者做出数据驱动的决策，以促进更具包容性和多元化的城市。