Kali Banger is a river located in the City of Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia. This project is a protection measures from river and oceanic tidal-flood by making polder system. This area was selected as a pilot of polder ...

The majority of large commercial urban spaces are no longer perceived for the user as private spaces as it has become part of the urban network and the public space: what consequences and possibilities related to ...

The upstream cities of Yangtze River have been witnessing significant transforming since the beginning of the construction of the Three Gorges hydroelectric planet project. Chongqing Port Authority had its opportunity to ...

If indeed footsteps weave places together and intertwined paths give their shape to spaces, then the urban landscape and its architectural value does not exist as such, they are essentially constructed through observation ...

Since the start of tourism as rewarding and massive activity in the mid-nineteenth century, new tourist destinations have appeared to satisfy mass tourism. Among the different urban developments that have taken place so ...

In the global world, investors and tourists choose their markets and their destinations based on competitive conditions and attractive features of the territory. Today cities compete with every other in order to attract ...

There is a strong relationship between sport event image and destination image as implied in previous studies (Kaplanidou, 2007; Lee et al., 2005; Xing & Chalip, 2006). This paper aims to identify urban elements of a host ...

Foresight is a relatively new field of study which initially arose to make provisions for the future in science and technology, but nowadays it is increasingly being used in territorial issues. Although the use of foresight ...

Gwangju has a plan for Urban Regeneration in an old urban center where it has witnessed the decrease of population and economic vitality, Gwangju tries to draw more tourists to the old urban center by introducing a large-scale ...

This paper is an attempt to discover the impact of urban tourism in shaping Singapore and Hong Kong, and how the strategic location of these cities within their respective local policy framework, regional relationships and ...

Necessity to permanent changes of places as an process that response at the permanent changing people’s perceptions, needs and relations of cooperation, working together or existing competition relations at background ...

In the middle of 20th century the attractiveness of the coast of Alicante favoured the development of touristic activity along the province. Initially, back when the tourists lived with sailors and fisherman, the area ...

The Spanish Mediterranean coast has shown, since the rise of tourism as a major economic activity, being one of the geographic areas with higher growth dynamics of developed land. Proof of this is the high percentage of ...

The game of golf was linked to the first European tourist movement in the mid-nineteenth century. Following the path marked by British travellers to warmer climates, encouraged by the hygienists and healthy trends and ...

Studying tourism planning means understanding and assuming that tourism is not just a flux of tourists who move without leaving a trace, but a motor that physically transforms the territory due to the need to build ...

Departing from and elaborating on the argument that mass tourism is constituted by a series of paradoxes rather than inconsistencies, planning and architecture stand restricted in solving tourism’s detrimental effects to ...

The paper will approach the relation rural-urban because over the next decade urban agglomerations will benefit from current economic and demographic trends whereas many remote rural areas face increasing difficulties and ...

Touristic development, urban growth and new production systems need various resources and infrastructure which may change natural order, altering ecosystems in the coast We have studied the Vélez river valley and its ...

This paper analyzes the historical development of tourism in the Alt Maresme, its current problematic situation, and the strategies that are being considered in the area to regenerate and to give continuity to this economical ...

Globalizing dynamic sources are making of tourist destinations, spaces each time more homogeneous, unable to respond to the tourist’s new motivation and to the specific characteristics of the territory and the local ...

New paradigms of leisure began to assert themselves in Europe, throughout the nineteenth century, highlighting the importance of new territorial dynamics associated with the fluxes of vacation areas (vilegiature). In ...

The Spanish Costa del Sol is one of the most important paradigms of sun-and-beach aged tourism in the world. This area has suffered intense and violent changes in recent years, and today faces an obsolescence process ...

The paper discusses the innovation potential of landscape design to mature tourism destinations in the Mediterranean, especially in relation to its contribution to generate new imagery as well as to configure sustainability ...

"White City", Christian’s documentary commissioned by the Greek National Tourism Organisation, emphasises the bright sun and the bright marble so as to rebrand the Greek capital as a modern tourist utopia. The cinematic ...

For these two decades many cities have succeeded in urban regeneration, based upon the simple concept that is to make a city people-friendly and comfortable to live in. The emergence of "regenerated" cities has raised ...

This research is based on the dialectic City – Neighbourhood, focusing on the importance of the ancient rural settlements – important districts of Lisbon – as fundamental urban structures for a new historical and ...

No other institution has experienced such a boom and similarly marked the end of the twentieth century as the museum, establishing itself as a tourist magnet, an architectural manifesto, and a symbol of the postmodern ...

We figure out the territory as a palimpsest in which it is possible to discover signs of its history. In this walk between the ruins, we ask to ourself a question: what happens to a region where a tragic event of ...

The City of Santos always had its development closely linked to its port vocation. From cargo to passengers, the development of foreign trade and the city and region have transformed the Port of Santos the largest in Latin ...

This paper presents a few results of a research carried out by the Department of Building and Urbanism of the University of Alicante thanks to an agreement with the Spanish Ministry of Environment. The aim is to analyse ...

The tourist route, a mass phenomenon, is a guided, partial tour (induced by someone else). The guides define what should be visited. Yet strolling the streets and discovering requires time. We are at the end of the ...

This paper explores the new tourism region Macau-Zhuhai which is emerging in the south-western part of the Pearl River Delta (PRD). Since Macau’s handover to the People’s Republic of China in 1999, the former Portuguese ...

Since it appeared as a mass phenomenon, in the second half of the XX century, tourism has proved to be one of the most constant economic sectors. Today it is intensified and strengthened by the nomadic society (Cacciari, ...

Bringing back the life to half-dead urban structures - re-inventing the idea of tourism. Mapping of non-physical and physical parameters - with a view of sustainable development and projective analyses. Research conducted on ...

The advancement of the tourism phenomena, in the specific context of the EU expansion towards the Black Sea, opens up new possibilities for east-european cities, currently struggling to reinvent themselves in times of ...

This article aims to discuss the evolution of various forms of tourism in the country and evaluation of its cost-effectiveness in relation to impacts on the natural environment. Take as case studies, the municipalities of ...

The following paper presents a project of Cultural Routes designed for the Chilean Tierra del Fuego, linked to promoting tourism and boosting the economy, through the development of a specific high standard tourism ...

The present study proposes to demonstrate the following hypothesis: there are unique tools, such as Cultural routes and Local Development Planning, which can be used to reactivate a region and that allow both local ...

The sandstone quarries are the commonest quarries in Mallorca. However, they have been always unknown landscapes. This paper tries to offer a panoramic view of the sandstone quarries, tracking between different scales. ...

When tourists visit a house museum, we do not only examine works of art, but rather scrutinize an infrequent domestic space. Considering the house museums of Salvador Dalí (Portlligat) and César Manrique (Taro de Tahiche) ...

The Ginna kanda's work group works is working on the transformation of cultural landscape as an engine for a local and sustainable development based on cultural tourism in Africa. Studying what cultural tourism ...

Fener and Balat districts are located on the historic peninsula of Istanbul, Turkey. Rehabilitation programme of those districts is the first work in Istanbul after UNESCO has declared it as a world heritage site in 1985. ...

Tainan is the oldest city in Taiwan and inherits rich historic assets including national level landmark buildings, important historic fabric and local traditions. The city has lost her political and economic importance ...

This paper is about the role of territory and landscape in the development in the Island of Santa Catarina, in the municipal district of Florianopolis, Brasil. Tourism activity, together with urban growth (attracted by ...

Sardinia offers a field to study the evolution of the tourist politics, above all in comparison to the relationships between tourist and local society, because it has been, and it is still, one of the best destinations ...

Coastal areas of the Mediterranean exert significant powers of attraction during the summer months, resulting in a highly seasonal phenomenon. In order to meet market demand during the summer period, permanent accommodation ...

The aim of this contribute is to debate about cities and places from the point of view of their populations. It is a rethinking of the paradigms of government: if before it was done for the citizens, and these were identified ...

City Branding has become a contemporary design practice of local government for promoting tourism in recent years. Its application, largely through urban tourism marketing, to the definition and communication of ...

The paper aims to link three main thoughts: First urban planning has traditionally been unable to tackled tourist spaces in relation to their physical specificity. Tourist spaces are not "normal" urban spaces. On the ...

Contemporary cities also known as postindustrial cities are created by dynamic urban development. One of the most significant processes is related to waterfront areas and their new public spaces. What does it mean for ...

This text wants to convey the experience of the process of developing a contemporary tourist atlas. The following will describe the regulations that affect the standardization of cartographic sources in nature, the process ...

The modern leisure habits result of the right to spare time, increased mobility due to improved transport, education through travel, and enhancement of healthy environments, consolidated in the Chilean desert, a series of ...

The paper analyzes and investigates the potentials and limitations of public spaces in cities’ coasts of Montenegro in a mountainous and coastal context. Emphasis is placed upon the littoral. New criteria for the study ...

At the moment, in many cities, and even in whole regions, the tourist areas have been stumped so that the limits between habitual inhabitants’ houses and the holiday ones are not already legible in the space. For renewing ...

This paper concentrates on the spatial dimension of a city and human perceptive abilities in its reality. A tourist is an exceptional person in a space which is unknown to him. He usually has a very general and virtual ...

In town planning, to refer to the topics of tourism is, above all, to put the accent on landscape. A scenic landscape, related to the arcadian tradition, which is reflected on several realities But the landscape of tourism ...

The Brazilians image is often associated with sympathy and joy. However these characteristics do not necessarily make them hospitable. To be hospitable it´s not just have a smile or be helpful, you must have hospitability, ...