6th Conference of the International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU): TOURBANISM, Barcelona, 25-27 gener, 2012
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Crossing the borderline takes you to heaven: working classes consumption tourism and frontier conurbations in South America
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Open AccessThe borderline between Brazil and Uruguay (South America) is punctuated by “twin cities” settlements established for surveillance since late 19th century. Insulated from the denser urban net spreading from Porto Alegre / ... -
Developing water-related tourism for infrastructure and economic development: case study on Kali Banger, Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia
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Open AccessKali 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 ... -
Jakarta’s tourism evolution: shopping center as urban tourism
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Open AccessPost industrial in Indonesia (after 1990’s) had created innovations in many things especially in technology that brings problems and benefits at the same time. Technology makes distance become zero for the people that makes ... -
City’s imaginary / imaginary for the city: the paradigm of the commercial image in the tourist city: Barcelona case
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Open AccessThe 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 ... -
Energy aspects in traditional buildings at touristic places
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Open AccessTouristic sector is a most sensitive one in Mediterranean countries like Greece or Spain. Buildings with traditional architecture in touristic places represent an attraction for tourists but to these buildings the integration ... -
Urban panorama tourism planning: a view from river tour course in post-three gorges era
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Open AccessThe 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 ... -
Revisiting Topaana: touring a neighborhood where the other 1% lives
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Open AccessSkopje is a city with the largest Roma population, as a percentage out of its total population, in the world. Topaana is an area where a substantial percentage of the Roma people in Skopje live, and although its central ... -
Touring the urban quotidian
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Open AccessIf 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 ... -
Tourism and the city image: the Barcelona Olympic case
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Open AccessThere have been many studies carried out connecting the phenomenon of contemporary tourism to phenomena caused by globalization, wherein its visible characteristics reveal the contradiction between global and local ... -
New holiday towns as Non-places: the case of Marina d'Or
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Open AccessSince 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 ... -
Tourism as a space to meet: from the architecture for tourism to the production of new spaces
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Open AccessThis writing is part of an ongoing PhD research. The study analyses tourism spatial effects and design solutions seeing as, since, as new aspects define an important shift in tourism and they highlight a meaningful trend, ... -
Fluorescent heart of Magaluf
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Golden Week Tourism and Beijing City
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Open AccessTourist Industry plays an important role in Beijing’s national economy and social development. After the Beijing Olympic Games, the urban space of Beijing has turned into a new development stage, and the city’s tourist ... -
Citymarketing, tourism and posmodern architecture in Barcelona: some social consequences
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Open AccessIn 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 ... -
Architecture and urbanity of tourism
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Open AccessTourism today reflects the limits of urban planning: sedentary and nomadic lifestyles. There is an overlap between different city users and geographical environments - sedentary and nomadic - which define a dynamic space ... -
Formula One Singtel Singapore Grand Prix and the City
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Open AccessThere 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 ... -
Urbanismo y turismo en la Costa del Sol: ejercicios de control y proyección turística redactados entre 1950 y 1980
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Open AccessEstableciendo un recorrido y análisis exhaustivo por los distintos planes y estudios que desde la década de los años 50 se publicaron y ordenaron y tuvieron como ámbito de trabajo a la Costa del Sol, se han localizado en ... -
Foresight as an innovative tool for designing tourist destinations
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Open AccessForesight 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 ... -
The tourist project of the SETAP Group for the International Bid of Ideas for Maspalomas Costa Canaria
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Open AccessThe city of Maspalomas began building in 1961, year of the celebration of the International Bid of ideas for Maspalomas Costa Canaria. This event was sponsored by the owner of the lands Mr. Alejandro de Castillo y Bravo ... -
Analysis on city tour routes in relation to urban spatial structure and pedestrian movement
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Open AccessGwangju 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 ... -
Tourism trends in the Caribbean
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Open AccessThe Caribbean is a great holiday destination, along with Europe, Asia and South America. But it is one of the regions that depend more economically on the touristic sector. That is why there is a need to innovate and ... -
The impact of urban tourism in the global-local nexus of Singapore and Hong Kong: the "Tourism Capitals of Asia"?
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Open AccessThis 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 ... -
The "other" cities: urban planning and architecture for tourism: the case of the Spanish Mediterranean (1953-1973)
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Open AccessEl presente estudio analiza los primeros núcleos turísticos surgidos en la costa mediterránea española en el periodo entre la II Guerra mundial y la crisis del petróleo (1945-73). Se presta especial atención a las ... -
Re-inventing the site: evolution and extra-urban territories control
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Open AccessNecessity 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 ... -
Planning for tourism on the coast: contributions to a change in attitude
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Open AccessThis article provides a brief summary of the relationship between tourism, land planning law and municipal planning in Spain. It sets out the arguments which led to a change of model in a new era of tourism in which mass ... -
Landscape and urban quality in consolidated tourist areas in Alicante coastline
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Open AccessIn 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 ... -
Sustainable touristic development in cultural landscapes
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Open AccessTo rebuild cultural landscape, with sustainable principles, it is fundamental to revalue the cultural and historic heritage but also natural heritage, improving site interpretation, as a manner to recover its touristic ... -
The impact of tourism activity on the land consumption: the case of Catalonia
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Open AccessThe 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 ... -
Research on residents' perceptions on tourism impacts and attitudes: a case study of Pingyao Ancient City
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Open AccessResidents’ perceptions on tourism impacts and attitudes towards tourism development have a great influence on tourism sustainable development. But the measuring factors of research on residents’ perceptions on tourism impacts ... -
Development of golf course in tourist territories: the "Costa del Sol"
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Open AccessThe 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 ... -
SSS Platforms
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Planning for tourism in Costa Smeralda
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Open AccessStudying 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 ... -
Regional tourism to regional transformation: the case of Jining area of Shandong Province in China
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Open AccessChina is facing the urgent problem of transformation development and the rapid development of tourism at the same time. Regional tourism could be the stimulus and impetus for the transformational development of an area by ... -
Dispersive tourism and camouflage
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Open AccessDeparting 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 ... -
Venice as pedestrian city and tourist magnet: mass events and ordinary life
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Open AccessIn Venice the famous network of pedestrian foot-ways deserves attention and research since has to face very often mass events. Even the ordinary mobility has peculiar needs. The efficiency of main road and rail transportation ... -
Sense of a place: liveability and tourism quality in territories
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Open AccessThe 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 ... -
Tourscapes
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Open AccessHarvey’s assessment of the Lefebvrian concept of the Right to the City is that it is a communal right, shared by association with the community around the urban project. How might this idea translate to a small island ... -
Environmental alteration process of Eastern Costa del Sol: tourism as an engine of change
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Open AccessTouristic 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 ... -
The tourist recycling of Malaga in the context of the maturity of the Costa del Sol
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Open AccessMalaga achieved its greatest tourist splendor at the beginning of the 20th century, coinciding with the establishment of a significant British industrial settlement. It was inspired in the South England seaside resort ... -
Tourism in Alt Maresme: historical perspective and future challenges
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Open AccessThis 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 ... -
The mirage of residential tourism: a mistaken concept, form arguments
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Open AccessIs it possible for a territory receiving four million foreign visitors a year and having more than a million touristic houses not to be touristic? "Sun & Beach" tourism is often related to what is known as residential tourism, ... -
Diversity, flexibility and identity: mechanisms for recycling mature tourist destinations
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Open AccessGlobalizing 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 ... -
Lisbon-Sintra touristic axis: urban subversion and renewal opportunities
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Open AccessTourism, as a social phenomenon, provides an economic and political dimension, based on mobility and consumption in the context of social-cultural and urban planning that encompass contemporary cities. In the passage of ... -
Planning the portuguese "Riviera": the expectations of the touristic-urbanistic developments of "Costa do Sol": Lisbon-Cascais
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Open AccessNew 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 ... -
From underdevelopment to overdevelopment in ZoMeCS: the potency of territory (territory = milieu * population)
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Open AccessCosta del Sol is a paradigmatic example of how a touristic theme park is being transformed -for the least fifty years- in an urban space with more diverse uses. We have called intentionally this area ZoMeCS, Zona Metropolitana ... -
Tourist Atlas on Spanish Costa del Sol: planning, landscape and architecture in the tourist metropolis, reflections for intervention
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Open AccessThe 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 ... -
Seasonal cities: the Adriatic Coast between continuity and renewal
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Open AccessThis work is related to the ongoing survey for the PHD program of Architecture, Environment and design, PhD Curriculum in Knowledge and Design of Urban Landscape, at the School of Advanced Studies of the University of ... -
Public space and tourism in post industrial territories
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The Axis of Ancient BeiJing that declaraed the World Cultural Heritage and the tourism of BeiJing
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Open AccessThis essay is mainly about six aspects on the Axis of Ancient BeiJing which Declaraed the WCH and it’s relationship between the Tourism of BeiJing: First, how to find out the Outstanding Universal Value of the Axis? Second, ... -
Tour-scapes or how to convert mature tourism destinations to complex sustainable landscapes: the strategy of the "second coast"
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Open AccessThe 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 ... -
Palma’s Beach complete transformation (architectural, urbanistic and touristic)
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Branding the "White City": touristic films and the portrayal of modern Athens in the 1950s and 1960s
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Open Access"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 ... -
Costa del Sol occidental: changes, problems and possibilities of a mature tourist territory
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Open AccessDuring the last 50 years, the urban and infrastructure development derived from tourism exploitation of this territory has become the Costa del Sol into a recognizable entity, made of fragments with different characteri ... -
Tourim, gentrification and neighborhood management in regenerated-cites: towards a “post-regeneration urbanism”
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Open AccessFor 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 ... -
Selling global Seoul: competitive urban policy and symbolic reconstruction of cities
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Open AccessThe paper focuses on a process of symbolic reconstruction of cities, where existing image or meaning of places is purposely changed with an aim to attract new investments, events or tourists to a particular city. Process ... -
Neighbourhood’s narratives as cultural heritage: from country lanes to urban narratives
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Open AccessThis 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 ... -
From road obsolescence to contemporary European scenic roads
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Open AccessObject: European non-motorway roads nearby natural and cultural heritage overlapping cross border regions in the European Union. Subject: Redundant roads as an Opportunity for land- use change, landscape identity disclosure ... -
City of museums: museum cluster as a manifesto of the paradigm shift
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Open AccessNo 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 ... -
Transforming moroccan adobe Kasbahs into a network of sustainable hotels
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Open AccessThe valleys of Southern Morocco are territorial corridors that are extremely rich in landscape and cultural terms but very fragile socially and economically. The 1000 kasbahs and ksars punctuating the length of the valleys ... -
Sicily: a journey between the ruins
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Open AccessWe 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 ... -
A long-term tourism scheme within a networked urban regeneration strategy for historic quarters
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Open AccessMany cities have witnessed the rise of urban tourism since 1970s. Nowadays, especially in developing countries, tourism has become an important industry to initiate employment, boost the economy, and regenerate urban ... -
Tourism and the port-city relationship: the experience of Santos (Brazil)
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Open AccessThe 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 ... -
The tourism value of national heritages in the urban development in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
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Open AccessThe heritages in a city could be considered as one of the important carriers represents urban culture. They are the media which the culture distribute and interchange, and the testimonies which recorded the historical and ... -
Territorial impact of golf courses and associate operations in the Valencıan Community and Murcia Region (Spain): “golf clusters”
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Open AccessThis 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 ... -
A century of tourism in Europe: new challenges to the discipline of urbanism
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Open AccessTourism is one of the most important modern phenomena of the last hundred years. Not only for its economic significance, but also by the changes it has produced in the city and the territory. Unfortunately, in many cases ... -
Urban experiences: EMBT. Gas Natural´s building, Santa Caterina market and Diagonal-Mar park
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Open AccessThe 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 ... -
Undercover tourism in the Ebro River Delta
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Open AccessThe following study is to outline the development of regional tourism resources of a specific territorial unit. On one hand, discusses how the landscape is formed and what elements make it up. From there, the discretion ... -
Emerging cross border tourism Region Macau-Zhuhai: place in play/place to play
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Open AccessThis 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 ... -
Industrial tourism: when the industry becomes a chance for tourism
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Open AccessDuring the XIX th century there is an important growth of the industrial activity in Catalonia (specially in Barcelona, Sabadell and Terrassa). This configures a new order in some cities. When the factories shut up we find ... -
The relationship between mass tourism and territory and its development in the Andalusian Tourist Administration
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Open AccessSince 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, ... -
Regional tourism opportunities in the Andalusian coast
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Open AccessAt the School of Architecture of Granada, within the research line on Coastal Architecture, the uniqueness and variability of the different development cases arising in the Andalusian coast have been analysed, all of ... -
Bringing back the life to half-dead urban structures
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Open AccessBringing 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 ... -
Networking of spa resorts: the case study of Serbian Central Region
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Open AccessReport on the development of Serbia in 2009 indicates that the main feature of the regional development is distinct territorial unevenness caused by numerous factors of economic, demographic and social character. Supported ... -
A common vision for the Dabube Region: chance or risk for a tourism oriented urban development of Brăila
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Open AccessThe 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 ... -
Retrieving pattern in a context of sustainable tourism
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Open AccessCodes of traditional and un-desecrated landscape are priceless values of a country – a society. They represent continuum and catholicity, and because of that they are absolute value, which should be brought up in a function ... -
Major tourist attractions and impacts on the natural environment
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Open AccessThis 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 ... -
An inside look at Bogotá’s urban renewal from broad urban stories to everyday tales
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Open AccessThe Colombian capital has become recently a model of urban development thanks to a successful process of urban renewal that fostered the insertion of the city in the international scene. In order to understand the complexity ... -
Cultural tourism in fragile institutional contexts: project for cultural routes in Tierra del Fuego
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Open AccessThe 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 ... -
Impact of multipurpose culture spaces on postindustrial european cities
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Open AccessFrom the beginning of human history and civilization, the meaningful architectural pieces have been widely visited by the millions of tourists, frequently called themselves piligrims, merchands or conquerors. Even though ... -
The millet route: understanding a cultural landscape: reactivation strategies for the cultural landscape of Dogon country, Mali
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Open AccessThe 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 ... -
A review on cultural landscape approach as a base for regeneration strategies on rural condition: Gran Canaria Island
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Open AccessThe rural territory presents nowadays a complex situation with serial difficulties for the development of the traditional activities (agriculture, stockbreeding, etc). This leads to a decline of these environments, ... -
Fissures on the landscape: the sandstone quarries, traces of the heritage landscape of Mallorca
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Open AccessThe 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. ... -
The chosen history
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Open AccessThe current discourse of the city as image or spectacle is what the municipal authorities, developers and politicians in Berlin are trying to encourage in order to increase the incomes from tourism, office or commercial ... -
"Touristyfied" domesticity: the house museums of Salvador Dalí and César Manrique
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Open AccessWhen 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) ... -
City branding strategies of Hermosillo: reflections of culture, heritage, identity, and tourism in the political institutions
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Open AccessLatin American metropolises have recently joined the worldwide competition of being consolidated as a touristic attraction and a venue for international events, but many of them are not prepared for such competition. ... -
The Ginna Kanda Programme, identity and intervention in African’s cultural landscape in Dogon’s country, Mali: an option for territorial and local cultural tourism project in hipodevelopment countries
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Open AccessThe 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 ... -
Connecting people with architecture: architecture’s new role in developing countries
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Open AccessArchitecture is part of everyone’s daily life, we live in buildings, and our life is an ongoing transit between open and enclosed spaces. One of the main attractions for a tourist is definitely architecture. Architecture, ... -
Assessment of the urban and tourism development in the Fener-Balat Districts
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Open AccessFener 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. ... -
Connotations of ephemeral spaces of consumption: a case study of Singapore’s Little India
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Open AccessThe practice of consumption is intrinsically integrated into our post-modern society and is fundamental in exercising, defining and re-defining people and group identity. Consumption occurs somewhere and somewhen it is ... -
Cultural renaissance and cultrual tourism in the City of Tainan
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Open AccessTainan 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 ... -
Τhe mechanical reproduction of cultural heritage: shifting from touristic areas to public spaces
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Open AccessThis paper puts forward a coherent argument for an alternative approach to urban monuments and archaeological sites as part of a viable model of sustainable tourism growth for mature “conceptually congested” historic ... -
Tourism in Florianopolis, Brazil: landscape patrimony in the basis of a sustainable development
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Open AccessThis 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 ... -
The impact of touristic infrastructures on local quality of life: the case of noise pollution in Barcelona
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Open AccessMassive tourism has made it necessary the construction of huge infrastructures to serve as regional gates to high capacity transport systems as highways, ports and airports. In installing such infrastructures local quality ... -
Tourism forms and social sustainability
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Open AccessSardinia 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 ... -
The socıo-economıc impact of tourısm development in Klıpoh Borobudur - Indonesıa
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Open AccessThe promotion of tourism will bring a greater contribution, in terms of economic development, i.e. increased foreign expenditures, generate business activities, provide more capital and employment, induce more production, ... -
Camping and open-air tourism: an opportunity for sustainable tourism in Coastal Areas
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Open AccessCoastal 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 ... -
Responsible tourism in Indonesia: multiple choices, open ended answers
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From tourist and resident to inhabitant and "inhabitantness"
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Open AccessThe 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 ... -
Towards sustainable architecture and urbanism through responsible tourism and the realization of zero-emission hotels
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Open AccessIn the tourism sector, particularly in hotels, generally much more resources per guest are consumed than in residential buildings per inhabitant. Tourists generally want to enjoy free time and don’t want primarily ... -
City branding and urban tourism: a case study of Seoul and Taipei
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Open AccessCity 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 ... -
Development of peripheral areas trough tourism- disadvantages and benefits: case study for Romanian Coastal Area
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Open AccessEconomic and social transformations in the last decades in EEC induce new challenges for development of new activities in order to cope at global level. Tourism it is one of the activities high developed in former ... -
Tourist development as an opportunity for viable and equitable territories: a return to the future
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Open AccessThe 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 ... -
From the american apartment hotel to nowadays
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Open AccessThere was a time in the United States when hotels served as ad hoc homes, providing full time housing as well as hotel services. At that moment, hotel life blurred the difference between tourist architecture and housing ... -
Waterfronts, public spaces and tourist potential
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Open AccessContemporary 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 ... -
"Satellite leisure in linear natural reserves", a planning model for tourism resorts: learnings from the GATCPAC Resting City
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Open AccessIn this article we explain the landscape and legal resources that characterized the GATCPAC Resting and Vacation City (1931-38) of Barcelona – a never built project – with the aim of depicting a suitable model for other ... -
Tourist mature destinations as complex spaces: notes about the elaboration process of an atlas of Costa del Sol
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Open AccessThis 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 ... -
Towards the end of tourism: global architecture, fantasy and void in the age of withdrawal
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Open AccessThe paper presents a reflection on the role of architecture in the age of global tourism and the post-political. It also examines the future of tourism in the face of a looming decline in the availability of cheap fossil ... -
The "Hotelera Nacional de Chile" (HONSA): modern tourism in the desert territory in northern Chile
(2012-01)
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Open AccessThe 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 ... -
From blue to grey tourısm: cultural brand or culture of trademarks
(2012-01)
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Open AccessThis communication aims at analyzing the fact that tourist destinations are changing in recent times; as Ashworth called it ‘a change from blue to grey tourism’. It moves away from the traditional commonplace model of ... -
Public spaces of Montenegrin cities' coasts: a case study
(2012-01)
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Open AccessThe 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 ... -
La Manga del Mar Menor: a posible utopia
(2012-01)
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Open AccessIn the 60's began the urbanization of La Manga del Mar Menor for tourism, an area so unspoiled and idyllic. Urban development was entrusted to the architects Antonio Bonet Castellana and Josep Puig Torné. The plan assumed ... -
From holiday way of life to everyday rutine
(2012-01)
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Open AccessAt 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 ... -
Contemporary eden: the transmigration of paradise tales, into edenic architectures today
(2012-01)
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Open AccessThis document proceeds from the research for my doctoral thesis titled This thesis is about the subject of Eden or paradise in architecture, to understand its concepts and be able to generate a general model to generate ... -
The tourist and the city: on orientation in unknown urban space
(2012-01)
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Open AccessThis 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 ... -
Ciudad Blanca, a modern proposal in 1960s tourism
(2012-01)
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Open AccessIn 1960 Juan Huarte invited Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza to visit the sites in Alcúdia, Mallorca where he intended to promote a new city for tourism. The result of that ambitious urban design project, produced by ... -
Landscape, planning and tourism
(2012-01)
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Open AccessIn 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 ... -
Tourism reclaiming: urban case study: City of Macau in the Pearl River Delta Region, China
(2012-01)
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Open AccessThe main subject of this paper is to study the use of land reclamation development in the contexts of tourism spaces construction in its relation to consolidate urban and growing regions. Referring to the processes involved, ... -
Myths and truths about Brazilian hospitality
(2012-01)
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Open AccessThe 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, ...
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