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1 online resource (xiv, 369 pages) : illustrations |
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Urban and landscape perspectives ; v. 6 |
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Urban and landscape perspectives ; v. 6.
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Enhancing the City: New Perspectives for Tourism and Leisure / Silvia Serreli / Giovanni Maciocco -- 1. Leisure and Construction of Urban Consciousness -- Places for Leisure: Places for City / Giovanni Maciocco -- Places for Leisure as Interactive Space of the City / Silvia Serreli -- Urban Tourist Precincts as Sites of Play / Bruce Hayllar / Tony Griffin -- Enhancing the City: New Perspectives for Tourism and Leisure -- 2. Authentic Places, Simulacrum Places -- Tourist City, the Dream and the Reversal of Time / Silvano Tagliagambe -- Disney-ality and Forgetfulness: the Eu-topia of a Consolatory Place / Elena Moreddu -- 3. Creative Places and Cultural Matrices of the City -- Creativity of Places as a Resource for Cultural Tourism / Oliver Frey -- Historico-Cultural Sustainability and Urban Dynamics / Peter Nijkamp / Eric de Noronha Vaz -- 4. Leisure and Privatisation of Public Space -- Spaces of Consumption / Xavier Costa -- Shopping as an Urban Leisure Activity / Laura Lutzoni -- 5. Urban Tourism and Hybrid Spaces -- Questioning the Urban in Urban Tourism / Gregory Ashworth -- Ambivalent Space(s) of Tourism in Italian Colonial Libya / Brian L. McLaren -- Waterfront Retrieved: Buenos Aires Contrasting Leisure Experience / Agustina Martire -- 6. Urban Populations and Rights of Citizenship -- Which Tourisms? Which Territories? / Arnaldo Cecchini -- Tourist Populations / Alfredo Mela / Daniela Ciaffi -- Tourism and Local Participation: What about the Citizens? / Monica Johansson |
| Summary |
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 of authors belonging to different disciplinary fields, emphasise the city's tendencies to create "stage-set contexts" of the private type, be it historic quarters, theme parks or hypermarkets. Issues like aestheticisation, thematisation and genericity are dealt with, conceptual categories that highlight the weak resistance cities put up against the rules of the leisure industry and, more generally speaking, the consumer economy. The book inquires into the capacity of the urban and territorial project to construct a perspective for a public dimension of space. This is linked with ethical action of the project involving an active relationship with places and a capacity to understand the dynamics of different urban populations. In this sense capacity for innovation and creativity can contribute to transforming "islands" of leisure into places of the city and consumers into citizens. Giovanni MACIOCCO obtained a degree in Engineering at the University of Pisa and in Architecture at the University of Florence. He is Full Professor of Town and Regional Planning, Director of the Department of Architecture and Planning and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Sassari. His works include: Les lieux de l'eau et de la terre, (Lybra Immagine, 1998); Wastelands (Dedalo, 2000); Il progetto ambientale nelle aree di bordo, with Pittaluga P. (FrancoAngeli, 2006), Fundamental Trends in City Development (Springer, 2008), Urban Landscape Perspectives (Ed.) (Springer, 2008), The Territorial Future of the City (Ed.) (Springer, 2008), People and Space. New Forms of Interaction in City Project (Springer, 2009); Il potenziale urbano dei territori esterni with Sanna G. and Serreli S. (Eds.) (FrancoAngeli, 2009). Silvia SERRELI is a Researcher in Town and Regional Planning at the Faculty of Architecture University of Sassari. She has a Ph. D. in "Urban Planning Methodology" from "La Sapienza" University of Rome and a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Cagliari. Her works include: Le dimensioni plurali della città ambientale. Prospettive di integrazione ambientale nel progetto del territorio (FrancoAngeli, 2004), Urban Landscape and an ecology of creativity, in Maciocco G. (Ed.) Urban Landscape Perspectives (Springer, 2008), Derelict places as "alternative" territories of the city, in Maciocco G. (Ed.) The Territorial Future of the City (Springer, 2008), Il potenziale urbano dei territori esterni with Maciocco G. and Sanna G. (Eds.) (FrancoAngeli, 2009) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Tourism and city planning.
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Recreation.
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recreation.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Hospitality, Travel & Tourism.
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Sciences sociales.
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Sciences humaines.
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Recreation
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Tourism and city planning
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Rekreation.
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Offentliga platser.
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Fritid.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Maciocco, Giovanni, 1946-
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Serreli, Silvia.
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| ISBN |
9789048124190 |
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9048124190 |
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