Enhancing the City New Perspectives for Tourism and Leisure /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Maciocco, Giovanni (Editor), Serreli, Silvia (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Edition: 1.
• Series: Urban and Landscape Perspectives ; 6
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Culture > Study and teaching.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Human geography.; Social Sciences.; Human Geography.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Regional and Cultural Studies.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Enhancing the City: New Perspectives for Tourism and Leisure
• Enhancing the City: New Perspectives for Tourism and Leisure
• 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
• 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
• Creative Places and Cultural Matrices of the City
• Creativity of Places as a Resource for Cultural Tourism
• Historico-Cultural Sustainability and Urban Dynamics
• Leisure and Privatisation of Public Space
• Spaces of Consumption
• Shopping as an Urban Leisure Activity
• 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’ Contrasting Leisure Experience
• Urban Populations and Rights of Citizenship
• Which Tourisms? Which Territories?
• Tourist Populations
• Tourism and Local Participation: What about the Citizens?.