Tourism, culture and regeneration /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2007.
• Subjects: Cities and towns.; Urban renewal.; Tourism and city planning.; Heritage tourism.; Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Economics, (New March 2000); Policy and Planning.; Marketing and Distribution.; Land Resources.; Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000); Sport and Recreational Activities, (New March 2000); Arts, Entertainment and Cultural Heritage.; Tourism and Travel.; Man.; Arts.; Case studies.; Constraints.; Cultural centres.; Cultural development.; Cultural tourism.; Destinations.; Economic development.; Ethnic groups.; Harbours.; Heritage areas.; Interpretation.; Local population.; Marketing.; Multiple land use.; Olympic games.; Spectator events.; Sport.; Tourism development.; Tourist industry.; Urban hinterland.; Urban planning.; Urban tourism.; Electronic books.
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This book examines the destinations and sites that are being created for tourists, as well as for local people within an urban regeneration context, with a particular focus on tourism's relationship to urban regeneration and cultural development. It examines the impact of such developments on a...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction / Melanie K. Smith
• Towards a Cultural Planning Approach to Regeneration / Melanie K. Smith
• The Creative Turn in Regeneration : Creative Spaces, Spectacles and Tourism in Cities / Greg Richards and Julie Wilson
• Culture, City Users and the Creation of New Tourism Areas in Cities / Robert Maitland
• VivaCity : Mixed-use and Urban Tourism / Rosita Aiesha and Graeme Evans
• Ethnoscapes as Cultural Attractions in Canadian 'World Cities' / Stephen J. Shaw
• (Re)Creating Culture through Tourism : Black Heritage Sites in New Jersey / Daina Cheyenne Harvey
• Sustainable Leisure and Tourism Space Development in Post-industrial Cities : the Case of Odaiba, Tokyo, Japan / Meiko Murayama and Gavin Parker
• After the Circus Leaves Town : the Relationship between Sport Events, Tourism and Urban Regeneration / Andrew Smith
• World Class : Using the Olympics to Shape and Brand the American Metropolis / Charles H. Heying, Matthew J. Burbank and Greg Andranovich
• Touring Templates : Cultural Workers and Regeneration in Small New England Cities / Myrna M. Breitbart and Cathy Stanton
• Cultural Policy and Urban Restructuring in Chicago / Costas Spirou
• Philadelphia's Avenue of the Arts : the Challenges of a Cultural District Initiative / Anna Maria Bounds
• On the Water's Edge : Developing Cultural Regeneration Paradigms for Urban Waterfronts / Andrew L. Jones
• Born Again : from Dock Cities to Cities of Culture / Patricia Avery
• Interpretative Planning as a Means of Urban Regeneration : Recife, Brazil / Brian Bath and Paula Goncalves
• Conclusion / Melanie K. Smith.