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Protest and Resistance in the Tourist City

Beschreibung

This book looks at urban tourism as a source of contention and analyses conflicts that have emerged in cities of the Global North and South, exploring the various ways in which community groups, residents and other organizations have responded to - and challenged - tourism development in an international, comparative perspective.

Autor

Claire Colomb is Reader (Associate Professor) in Planning and Urban Sociology at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London (UK), and holds a first degree in Politics and Sociology (Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, France) and a PhD in Planning (University College London). Her research interests cover urban and regional governance, planning and urban regeneration in European cities, urban social movements, European spatial planning and territorial cooperation, and comparative planning. She is the author of Staging the New Berlin: Place Marketing and the Politics of Urban Reinvention (Routledge 2011). Johannes Novy is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Spatial Planning in the School of Planning and Geography at Cardiff University (UK). He studied urban planning and urban studies in Germany, Italy and the United States and holds a PhD in Urban Planning from Columbia University, New York. His research interests cover urban and planning theory, urban (development) politics, urban tourism and leisure consumption. He co-edited Searching for the Just City (Routledge 2009).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 702g
• ISBN-13: 9781138856714
• ISBN-10: 1138856711
• Artikelnr.: 43680171