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...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
2009.
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| Edition: | 1. |
| Series: | Urban and Landscape Perspectives ;
6 |
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| Online Access: | https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2419-0 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. 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
- 2. 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
- 3. Creative Places and Cultural Matrices of the City. Creativity of Places as a Resource for Cultural Tourism
- Historico-Cultural Sustainability and Urban Dynamics. 4. Leisure and Privatisation of Public Space. Spaces of Consumption
- Shopping as an Urban Leisure Activity
- 5. 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<U+0019> Contrasting Leisure Experience
- 6.Urban Populations and Rights of Citizenship. Which Tourisms? Which Territories?- Tourist Populations
- Tourism and Local Participation: What about the Citizens?.