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...