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...
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 ...
Aiming to nurture reflection and apply methods for improving physical and social landscapes, this book examines relations between urban societies and physical space, the project for the physical city as a way to reveal civitas, sustainabe development and more.
Aiming to nurture reflection and apply methods for improving physical and social landscapes, this book examines relations between urban societies and ...