Editors:
- The concepts of leisure and tourism and their relation to the city are a highly relevant topic
- Multidisciplinary approach
- The main themes of the book are presented from various angles and points of view
- The authors are internationally acknowledged experts in the field
Part of the book series: Urban and Landscape Perspectives (URBANLAND, volume 6)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Enhancing the City: New Perspectives for Tourism and Leisure
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Leisure and Construction of Urban Consciousness
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Authentic Places, Simulacrum Places
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Creative Places and Cultural Matrices of the City
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Leisure and Privatisation of Public Space
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Urban Tourism and Hybrid Spaces
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Architecture and Planning Faculty of Architecture, Alghero, University of Sassari, Alghero, Italy
Giovanni Maciocco, Silvia Serreli
About the editors
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Enhancing the City.
Book Subtitle: New Perspectives for Tourism and Leisure
Editors: Giovanni Maciocco, Silvia Serreli
Series Title: Urban and Landscape Perspectives
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2419-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-2418-3Published: 26 October 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3063-2Published: 14 March 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-2419-0Published: 30 September 2009
Series ISSN: 1877-7139
Series E-ISSN: 2512-1200
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 369
Topics: Human Geography, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Regional and Cultural Studies