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One of the most important trends in Lisbon's nightlife -following the international tendencies- is the aesthetic embracing of the "vintage" style in a growing number of nightspots and venues. Maybe the leading figure inspiring this nightscape transformation -and certainly the most well-known example of this trend- is the Pensão Amor, a former brothel turned into a crowded night bar on the way from the Bairro Alto to Cais do Sodré (the two most important nightlife areas in the city center).However, the simulated bohemian and burlesque atmosphere, the prostitution-based iconography and the aseptic sexuality that emerge from the objects exposed in every corner of the place, obscure the role of "vintage" style in the gentrification of Lisbon's nightscapes.Jordi Nofre's contribution in "Fennia. International Journal of Geography" shows how this new socially sanitized bohemian nightlife (mainly oriented towards the local new middle classes and their international peers such as tourists and Erasmus students) is actually displacing old forms of working-class leisure and decadent nightlife.Here you can find Nofre's article: “Vintage Nightlife”: Gentrifying Lisbon downtown", an excellent case study providing relevant guidelines for our research in Lisbon.