Consuming Tradition, Manufacturing Heritage (eBook, ePUB)

Global Norms and Urban Forms in the Age of Tourism
Redaktion: Alsayyad, Nezar

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136368240
• Artikelnr.: 40171778

Autorenporträt

Nezar AlSayyad is an architect, planner, and urban historian. He is currently chair of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Professor of Architecture and Planning at the University of California, Berkeley.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. The Contributors. Prologue. 1. Consuming Tradition, Manufacturing
Heritage: Global Norms and Urban Forms in the Age of Tourism. Tradition and
Tourism: Rethinking the "Other". 2. Tourism Encounters: Inter-and
Intra-Cultural Conflicts and the World's Largest Industry. 3. Learning to
Consume: What is Heritage and When is it Traditional? 4. Openings to Each
Other in the Technological Age. Imaging the Manufacturing Heritage 5.
Colonial Nostalgia and Cultures of Travel: Spaces of Constructed Visibility
in Egypt. 6. Everyday Attractions: Tourism and the Generation of Instant
Heritage in Nineteenth Century San Francisco -. 7. Re-Presenting and
Representing the Vernacular: The Open-Air Museum. Manufacturing and
Consuming: Global and Local. 8. Making the Nation: The Politics of Heritage
in Egypt. 9. The 'Old-New Jaffa': Tourism, Gentrification, and the Battle
for Tel Aviv's Arab Neighbourhood. 10. Image Making, City Marketing, and
the Aesthetization of Social Inequality in Rio de Janeiro. Epilogue. 11.
'Authentic Anxieties'.