Enhancing the city new perspectives for tourism and leisure
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...
| Other Authors: | , |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Published: |
Dordrecht ; New York :
Springer
c2009.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2009. |
| Series: | Urban and landscape perspectives ;
v. 6. |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009454866906719 |
Table of Contents:
- 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 Citizenship
- Which Tourisms? Which Territories?
- Tourist Populations
- Tourism and Local Participation: What about the Citizens?.
