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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Maciocco, Giovanni (Editor ), Serreli, Silvia (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edición:1st ed. 2009.
Colección:Urban and Landscape Perspectives, 6
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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?.