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Enhancing the city : New perspectives for tourism and leisure

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Titre

Enhancing the city : New perspectives for tourism and leisure

Sujet

, tourisme, culture urbaine, habitants, économie, sociologie urbaine, lieu public, Maciocco Giovanni, Serreli Silvia

Description

Abstract from the publisher :
 
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 understand 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.
 
Contents :
 
Giovanni Maciocco - Places for Leisure. Places for City
Silvia Serreli - Places for Leisure as Interactive Space of the City Bruce Hayllar and Tony Griffin - Urban Tourist Precincts as Sites of Play Silvano Tagliagambe - The Tourist City, the Dream and the Reversal of Time Elena Moreddu - Disney-ality and Forgetfulness: The Eu-topia of a Consolatory Place Oliver Frey - Creativity of Places as a Resource for Cultural Tourism Eric de Noronha Vaz and Peter Nijkamp - Historico-Cultural Sustainability and Urban Dynamics Xavier Costa - Spaces of Consumption Laura Lutzoni - Shopping as an Urban Leisure Activity Gregory Ashworth - Questioning the Urban in Urban Tourism Brian L. McLaren - The Ambivalent Space(s) of Tourism in Italian Colonial Libya Agustina Martire - Waterfront Retrieved. Buenos Aires’ Contrasting Leisure Experience Arnaldo Cecchini - Which Tourisms? Which Territories? Daniela Ciaffi and Alfredo Mela - Tourist Populations Monica Johansson - Tourism and Local Participation: What about the Citizens? Giovanni Maciocco is Full Professor of Town and Regional Planning, Director of the Department of Architecture and Planning and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Sassari. Silvia Serreli is a Researcher in Town and Regional Planning at the Faculty of Architecture University of Sassari.  

Créateur

NC

Éditeur

Springer

Date

2010

Format

369

Type

Ouvrage