Enhancing the city

Giovanni Maciocco, Silvia Serreli (eds)

Springer - Berlin

2009

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.