Enhancing the City

New Perspectives for Tourism and Leisure

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Giovanni Maciocco

▪Silvia Serreli

Verlag:

Springer Verlag

Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: W9P7KLW

EAN: 9789048124183

Erhältlich:

Nicht auf Lager

Zustellung: Fr, 18.09.2026

Versand: Kostenlos

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CHF 189.–

CHF 140.–

Beschreibung

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.

Spezifikationen

Sprache

Englisch

Autor

Giovanni Maciocco
Silvia Serreli

Thema

Kultur: Allgemein
Geographie: Humangeographie

Kollektion

Urban and Landscape Perspectives

Zielgruppe

Research

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

Erscheinungsland

Niederlande

Format

Buch (Hardcover)

Anzahl Seiten