Enhancing the City - New Perspectives for Tourism and Leisure
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| Verlag | Springer Netherlands |
| Auflage | 2010 |
| Seiten | 369 |
| Format | 16,0 x 24,1 x 2,5 cm |
| Gewicht | 702 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| Reihe | Urban and Landscape Perspectives 6 |
| EAN | 9789048124183 |
| Bestell-Nr | 04812418DA |
Many cities have undergone transformations designed to increase tourism. This book explores those transformations, especially the tendency of cities to create "stage set contexts" of the private type, such as historic quarters, theme parks or hypermarkets.
Klappentext:
Departing from a survey on the post-modern landscapes of tourism, this book explores the transformations the city has undergone and the way it has become a simulacrum offered to tourists, spectacularised with the aim of increasing its capacity for attraction. The experiences dealt with in the papers of authors belonging to different disciplinary fields, emphasise the city's tendencies to create "stage-set contexts" of the private type, be it historic quarters, theme parks or hypermarkets. Issues like aestheticisation, thematisation and genericity are dealt with, conceptual categories that highlight the weak resistance cities put up against the rules of the leisure industry and, more generally speaking, the consumer economy.
The book inquires into the capacity of the urban and territorial project to construct a perspective for a public dimension of space. This is linked with ethical action of the project involving an active relationship with places and a capacity to unde rstand the dynamics of different urban populations. In this sense capacity for innovation and creativity can contribute to transforming "islands" of leisure into places of the city and consumers into citizens.
Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Enhancing the City: New Perspectives for Tourism and Leisure.- Enhancing the City: New Perspectives for Tourism and Leisure.- Leisure and Construction of Urban Consciousness.- Places for Leisure: Places for City.- Places for Leisure as Interactive Space of the City.- Urban Tourist Precincts as Sites of Play.- Authentic Places, Simulacrum Places.- The Tourist City, the Dream and the Reversal of Time.- Disney-ality and Forgetfulness: the Eu-topia of a Consolatory Place.- Creative Places and Cultural Matrices of the City.- Creativity of Places as a Resource for Cultural Tourism.- Historico-Cultural Sustainability and Urban Dynamics.- Leisure and Privatisation of Public Space.- Spaces of Consumption.- Shopping as an Urban Leisure Activity.- Urban Tourism and Hybrid Spaces.- Questioning the Urban in Urban Tourism.- The Ambivalent Space(s) of Tourism in Italian Colonial Libya.- Waterfront Retrieved: Buenos Aires' Contrasting Leisure Experience.- Urban Populations and Rights of Citizensh ip.- Which Tourisms? Which Territories?.- Tourist Populations.- Tourism and Local Participation: What about the Citizens?.