Cities And Visitors: Regulating People, Markets, And City Space (studies In Urban And Social Change)

The authors of this book use regulation theory to bring theoretical focus and analytic clarity to the study of urban tourism. Provides a unifying analytic framework for the study of urban tourism. Brings urban tourism into focus as an important political, economic and cultural phenomenon. Presents original essays written by established scholars, including studies of Venice, Mexico, Montreal, New York, Los Angeles, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, and Australia's Gold Coast. Content: Chapter 1 Visitors and the Spatial Ecology of the City (pages 23–38): Dennis R. Judd Chapter 2 Cities, Security, and Visitors: Managing Mega?Events in France (pages 39–52): Sophie Body?Gendrot Chapter 3 Sociological Theories of Tourism and Regulation Theory (pages 53–71): Nicolo Costa and Guido Martinotti Chapter 4 Amsterdam: It's All in the Mix (pages 75–90): Pieter Terhorst, Jacques van de Ven and Leon Deben Chapter 5 Revalorizing the Inner City: Tourism and Regulation in Harlem (pages 91–112): Lily M. Hoffman Chapter 6 Barcelona: Governing Coalitions, Visitors and the Changing City Center (pages 113–125): Mariso Garcia and Nuria Claver Chapter 7 The Evolution of Australian Tourism Urbanization (pages 126–142): Patrick Mullins Chapter 8 Regulating Hospitality: Tourism Workers in New York and Los Angeles (pages 145–166): David L. Gladstone and Susan. S Fainstein Chapter 9 Shaping the Tourism Labor Market in Montreal (pages 167–184): Marc V. Levine Chapter 10 Mexico: Tensions in the Fordist Model of Tourism Development (pages 187–199): Daniel Hiernaux?Nicolas Chapter 11 The New Berlin: Marketing the City of Dreams (pages 200–218): Hartmut Haussermann and Claire Colomb Chapter 12 Museums as Flagships of Urban Development (pages 219–236): Chris Hamnett and Noam Shoval Chapter 13 Making Theoretical Sense of Tourism (pages 239–253): Susan S. Fainstein, Lily M. Hoffman and Dennis R. Judd

The authors of this book use regulation theory to bring theoretical focus and analytic clarity to the study of urban tourism. The book opens and closes with chapters that analyze urban tourism within the context of a restructured global economy and its interaction with local and global cultural tendencies. The editors and contributors emphasize the role of the state at different spatial scales in the production of the tourist city, examine the ways in which urban images are created, and investigate the place of sports, art museums, and other cultural forms in creating the tourism milieu. Original chapters written by leading scholars illuminate their theoretical perspective with studies of Venice, Mexico, Montreal, New York, Los Angeles, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, and Australia’s Gold Coast.

These studies are grouped into four categories: regulating tourists, city space, labor markets, and the tourism industry. The regulation framework allows the editors and contributors to show how the political, economic, and cultural elements of urban tourism constitute an interwoven whole.

In the post-structuralist urban literature, enclaves represent local nodes of international circuits of capital and culture, though each of them may masquerade as a local space: gated communities, through the magic of marketing, become neighborhoods; malls are said to be the new marketplaces; and tourist bubbles offer simulacra of the cities they are replacing. This text uses regulation theory to bring theoretical focus and analytic clarity to the study of urban tourism. It opens and closes with chapters that analyse urban tourism within the context of a restructured global economy and its interaction with local and global cultural tendencies