Consuming Tradition, Manufacturing Heritage : Global Norms and Urban Forms in the Age of Tourism

From the Grand Tour to today's packages holidays, the last two centuries have witnessed an exponential growth in travel and tourism and, as the twenty-first century unfolds, people of every class and from every country will be wandering to every part of the planet. Meanwhile tourist destinations throughout the world find themselves in ever more fierce competition - those places marginalized in today's global industrial and information economy perceiving tourism as perhaps the only means of surviving. But mass tourism has raised the local and international passions as people decry the irreversible destruction of traditional places and historic sites. Against these trends and at a time when standardized products and services are marketed worldwide, there is an increasing demand for built environments that promise unique cultural experiences. This has led many nations and groups to engage in the parallel processes of facilitating the consumption of tradition and of manufacturing tradition. The contributors to this volume - drawn from a wide range of disciplines - address these themes within the following sections: Traditions and Tourism: Rethinking the "Other"; Imaging and Manufacturing Heritage; Manufacturing and Consuming: Global and Local. Their studies, dealing with very different times, environments and geographic locales, will shed new light on how tourist 'gaze' transforms the reality of built spaces into cultural imagery Global Norms And Urban Forms In The Age Of Tourism : Manufactured Heritage, Consuming Tradition / Nezar Alsayyad -- Tourism Encounters : Inter- And Intra-cultural Conflicts And The World's Largest Industry / Mike Robinson -- Learning To Consume : What Is Heritage And When Is It Traditional? / Nelson H.h. Graburn -- Openings To Each Other In The Technological Age / Robert Mugerauer -- Colonial Nostalgia And Cultures Of Travel : Spaces Of Constructed Visibility In Egypt / Derek Gregory -- Everyday Attractions : Tourism And The Generation Of Instant Heritage In Nineteenth-century San Francisco / J. Philip Gruen -- Re-presenting And Representing The Vernacular : The Open-air Museum / Paul Oliver -- Making The Nation : The Politics Of Heritage In Egypt / Timothy Mitchell -- 'new-old Jaffa' : Tourism, Gentrification, And The Battle For Tel Aviv's Arab Neighbourhood / Mark Levine -- Image Making, City Marketing, And The Aesthetization Of Social Inequality In Rio De Janeiro / Anne-marie Broudehoux -- 'authentic' Anxieties / Dell Upton. Edited By Nezar Alsayyad. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Contents 3 Preface 4 The Contributors 5 Chapter 1 Global Norms and Urban Forms in the Age of Tourism: Manufacturing Heritage, Consuming Tradition 6 Chapter 2 Tourism Encounters: Inter- and Intra-Cultural Conflicts and the World's Largest Industry 23 Chapter 3 Learning to Consume: What is Heritage and When is it Traditional? 40 Chapter 4 Openings To Each Other in the Technological Age 51 Chapter 5 Colonial Nostalgia and Cultures of Travel: Spaces of Constructed Visibility in Egypt 61 Chapter 6 Everyday Attractions: Tourism and the Generation of Instant Heritage in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco 82 Chapter 7 Re-Presenting and Representing the Vernacular: The Open-Air Museum 101 Chapter 8 Making the Nation: The Politics of Heritage in Egypt 112 Chapter 9 The 'New-Old Jaffa': Tourism, Gentrification, and the Battle for Tel Aviv's Arab Neighbourhood 126 Chapter 10 Image Making, City Marketing, and the Aesthetization of Social Inequality in Rio de Janeiro 142 Chapter 11 Authentic Anxieties 155 Index 159 Increasing demand for environments that promise unique cultural experiences has led many nations and groups to engage in the parallel processes of facilitating the consumption of tradition whilst manufacturing it. This volume addresses these themes This book reintroduces the idea of the city as a territorial concept. The use of the built environment as a lens will place globalization debates in the specific context of national, regional and local expression. Unique and timely book to address this debateGood line-up of authorsValuable addition to growing literature on the subject