Plazas and barrios : heritage tourism and globalization in the Latin American centro historico /

"This book explores how heritage tourism and globalization are reshaping the Latin American centro historico, analyzing the transformation of the urban core from town plaza to historic center in nine cities: Bogota, Colombia; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Cartagena, Colombia; Cuenca, Ecuador; Havana...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Scarpaci, Joseph L.
Format: Government Document eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2005.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Society, environment, and place.
Subjects:
Historic districts > Latin America.
Historic preservation > Latin America.
Cultural property > Protection > Latin America.
Heritage tourism > Latin America.
Globalization.
Préservation historique > Amérique latine.
Tourisme culturel > Amérique latine.
Mondialisation.
globalism.
ARCHITECTURE / General
Cultural property > Protection
Globalization
Heritage tourism
Historic districts
Historic preservation
culture > patrimoine > tourisme > Amerique latine.
identite culturelle > tourisme > Amerique latine.
globalisation (mondialisation) > tourisme > Amerique latine.
tourisme de memoire > Amerique latine.
Latin America
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Approaching Latin America's built heritage
  • The historical geography of the Spanish American centro historico
  • Land use, building quality, and skylines in the centro historico
  • The social construction of Latin American historic districts
  • Heritage and land valuation in Cartagena de Indias
  • Heritage tourism in Habana Vieja: restructuring in a post-Soviet age
  • Tourism planning and heritage preservation in Trinidad, Cuba
  • Globalization's pressures in the new millennium.

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