Enhancing the City. [electronic resource] : New Perspectives for Tourism and Leisure

ISBN:

9789048124190

Title:

Author:

Maciocco, Giovanni.

Personal Author:

Maciocco, Giovanni.

Publication Information:

Dordrecht : Springer, 2009.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (382 p.)

Series:

Urban and Landscape Perspectives ; v.6

Urban and Landscape Perspectives

General Note:

Description based upon print version of record.

Contents:

CONTENTS; Enhancing the City: New Perspectives for Tourism and Leisure; 1. Leisure and Construction of Urban Consciousness ; Places for Leisure: Places for City ; Leisure as an Amphibian Figure; Kitsch Space and Space of Rooting; Commodity Space and Citizen Space; Tourism Economics and Dialectic of Identity; Places of Leisure and Intermediate Spaces; Public Identity and Brandscapes; Symbolic Construction and Urban Consciousness; Places for Leisure as Interactive Space of the City ; Places of the City as Places of Movement; Leisure Landscapes as Mundane Geographies

Enchanted Landscape as a Place of Extraordinary ExperienceImaginative Geographies and Spaces of Dissonance; Places of Leisure as Spatiality of Learning; Urban Tourist Precincts as Sites of Play ; Tourists and the City; Sites of Experience; Experiencing the Precinct: Empirical Studies; Playing in the City; Discussion and Implications for Management; 2 Authentic Places, Simulacrum Places ; The Tourist City, the Dream and the Reversal of Time ; What We Say about ourselves…; What They Say about us…; The Reversal of the Relationship between Nature and Artefact

The Dream and Awakening and the "Semantic Dominant"With our Feet on the Ground: the Return from the Dream to Reality; Disney-ality and Forgetfulness: the Eu-topia of a Consolatory Place ; Introducing Reality-Proof Images; The Consumption of Places; Disney-ality and Forgetfulness; A Consolatory Place; Beyond the Eu-topia of the Centre; 3 Creative Places and Cultural Matrices of the City; Creativity of Places as a Resource for Cultural Tourism ; Creativity and Knowledge as a Factor for Local Identity; Creativity and the "Renaissance of the City"

The Role of Cultural Tourism as a Sector of Urban DevelopmentPlaces as Socio-Spatial Entities and their Cultural Capital; Creative Places and their Neighbourhoods as a Resource; Creativity and Cultural City Tourism; Gentrification by Way of Cultural City Tourism?; The Concept of the "Creative City" and Cultural City Tourism; Urbanity and Public Spaces as a Resource of Tourism; Historico-Cultural Sustainability and Urban Dynamics; Dynamic Urban Spaces and their Historico-Cultural Heritage; Geo-Science Tools; Cellular Automata, GIS and Cultural Heritage

Algarve: a GIS Laboratory for Cultural HeritageFoci of Algarve Sustainability Challenges; Policy Lessons and Conclusions; 4 Leisure and Privatisation of Public Space; Spaces of Consumption; Place as a Commodity; Archaeology and Consumption; Consumption and Public Space; City Museum; Shopping as an Urban Leisure Activity ; Simulation of the City and Evolution of Consumer Models; The Society of the Spectacle and the Space of Containers; Consumer and Gratification Rituals; Urban Leisure and Public Space; 5 Urban Tourism and Hybrid Spaces ; Questioning the Urban in Urban Tourism

What is the Relationship between Cities and Tourism?

Subject Term:

Electronic books. -- local.

Heritage tourism.

Tourism.

Added Author:

Serreli, Silvia.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2009

Publication Information:

Dordrecht : Springer, 2009.

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Summary

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.

Author Notes

Giovanni MACIOCCO obtained a degree in Engineering at the University of Pisa and in Architecture at the University of Florence. He 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. His works include: Les lieux de l'eau et de la terre, (Lybra Immagine, 1998); Wastelands (Dedalo, 2000); Il progetto ambientale nelle aree di bordo, with Pittaluga P. (FrancoAngeli, 2006), Fundamental Trends in City Development (Springer, 2008), Urban Landscape Perspectives (Ed.) (Springer, 2008), The Territorial Future of the City (Ed.) (Springer, 2008), People and Space. New Forms of Interaction in City Project (Springer, 2009); Il potenziale urbano dei territori esterni with Sanna G. and Serreli S. (Eds.) (FrancoAngeli, 2009).

Silvia SERRELI is a Researcher in Town and Regional Planning at the Faculty of Architecture University of Sassari. She has a Ph.D. in "Urban Planning Methodology" from "La Sapienza" University of Rome and a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Cagliari. Her works include: Le dimensioni plurali della città ambientale. Prospettive di integrazione ambientale nel progetto del territorio (FrancoAngeli, 2004), Urban Landscape and an ecology of creativity, in Maciocco G. (Ed.) Urban Landscape Perspectives (Springer, 2008), Derelict places as "alternative" territories of the city, in Maciocco G. (Ed.) The Territorial Future of the City (Springer, 2008), Il potenziale urbano dei territori esterni with Maciocco G. and Sanna G. (Eds.) (FrancoAngeli, 2009).