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This paper examines the ongoing transition of Venice towards a short-term city, posited as an urban form which accommodates the dwelling practices of temporary populations as tourists, at the expenses of a stable resident population. This shift is approached through the conceptual framework of resilience, which is also explored in its political and discursive dimensions. At the base of the emergence of a short-term city, we analyse the redistributive impacts of short-term rentals mediated by digital platforms and their influence on the housing market, but also the related entrenchments of a local policy agenda supporting the resilience of the industry itself above that of the city as a living organism. After illustrating the development of the hospitality sector in the city fabric over the last four decades and presenting the historical challenges that Venice has been facing in regard to its capacity to retain a stable population, we seek to unravel the debate on 'the future of Venice', which confronts local and global agents defending a 'conservationist' approach for Venice as an ineluctably tourist city, with social actors who claim for the defence of residence – and therefore for a ban on STR – as a necessary condition for a socially resilient alternative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper contributes to the analysis of the tourism economy by using the concept of extractivism, with a focus on the urban context. Through the analysis of the case of Venice, I aim at highlighting the specific characteristics of the affirmation of this model in historical cities which are widespread in the Italian and Mediterranean context. By questioning the processes of heritization at work, I aim at framing the museification and the commodification of the historical city as steps in the affirmation of the extractivist model rooted in the overall transformations of urban contemporary society. Finally I try to delineate a research agenda based around the idea of the city as a common which is able to represent an alternative to the extractivist logics, thus contributing to the perspective of the "right to the city". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]