Tourism in Traditional Bali Settlement

ISBN-13: 9783639129663 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 420 str.

Wiwik Pratiwi

Opis

In many of the changes that are occurring in the world today, tourism has a significant role in many settlements developed mainly as tourist destinations. Among other changes, spatial and land development engendered by tourism has not been researched widely. One of the most obvious impacts of tourism is on the traditional built environment. Most studies on the impact of tourism are focused on the social and economic impacts of tourism. This research specifically focus on the impact of tourism on the traditional settlement and built environment planning process. This book is a contribution to the empirical investigation of the role of institutions in explaining development processes and the characteristics of the resulting built environment. In planning discipline, especiallyland development studies arena, mosteconomic-institutional-approach-research has beenconducted in developed countries. This book haspartly been based on asociological-institutional-approach to analyze builtenvironmental changes arising in traditional Bali settlement. The case studies for detail empirical research are Kuta and Nusa Dua in Southern Bali.

O autorze

Wiwik is researcher and lecturer at School of
Architecture, Planning & Policy Development; Institut Teknologi
Bandung; Indonesia since 1991. Her interest covers
human settlement, architecture, tourism. This book is her
work in PhD program at University of Sheffield, United
Kingdom completed in 2005. Wiwik s website is
www.ar.itb.ac.id/wdp