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Enhancing the City. [electronic resource] : New Perspectives for Tourism and Leisure
ISBN:
9789048124190
Title:
Enhancing the City. [electronic resource] : New Perspectives for Tourism and Leisure
Author:
Maciocco, Giovanni.
Personal Author:
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?
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Format:
Electronic Resources
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Publication Date:
2009
Publication Information:
Dordrecht : Springer, 2009.