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Cities and Visitors
Regulating People, Markets, and City Space

Lily M. Hoffman (Edited by), Hoffman (Author), Susan S. Fainstein (Edited by), Dennis R. Judd (Edited by)

9781405100595, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 15 September 2003

284 pages
23 x 15.6 x 2.1 cm, 0.369 kg

"Building on the insight that markets rest on political foundations, this volume of highly perceptive studies asks how tourism has become increasingly prominent on the urban scene and how this has affected urban dwellers, positively as well as negatively. Fascinating, provocative, unexpected, never simplistic, this book gives us the state of the art on this timely subject." John Mollenkopf, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center


"This book stands out in what is a rapidly growing literature on tourism by attempting a systematic empirical examination of major trends and components of urban tourism. It moves from global trends to the particular ways in which these become concrete economic, social, cultural conditions in specific cities. And it moves from detailed empirical analyses to broader interpretive framings of what it all means." Saskia Sassen, editor of Global Networks/Linked Cities

"The book is coherent, the chapters are consistent and the introduction and conclusion are well-written.....it will serve well the global economists who are interested in relationship between the global trends and tourism dynamics at the local level." Journal of American Planning Association

The authors of this book use regulation theory to bring theoretical focus and analytic clarity to the study of urban tourism.

  • Provides a unifying analytic framework for the study of urban tourism.
  • Brings urban tourism into focus as an important political, economic and cultural phenomenon.
  • Presents original essays written by established scholars, including studies of Venice, Mexico, Montreal, New York, Los Angeles, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, and Australia's Gold Coast.

List of Illustrations vii

List of Tables ix

List of Contributors xi

Series Editors' Preface xv

Preface xvi

Introduction 1
Susan S. Fainstein, Lily M. Hoffman, and Dennis R. Judd

Part I: Regulating Visitors 21

1 Visitors and the Spatial Ecology of the City
Dennis R. Judd 23

2 Cities, Security, and Visitors: Managing Mega-Events in France
Sophie Body-Gendrot 39

3 Sociological Theories of Tourism and Regulation Theory
Nicolò Costa and Guido Martinotti 53

Part II: Regulating City Space 73

4 Amsterdam: It’s All in the Mix
Pieter Terhorst, Jacques van de Ven, and Leon Deben 75

5 Revalorizing the Inner City: Tourism and Regulation in Harlem
Lily M. Hoffman 91

6 Barcelona: Governing Coalitions, Visitors, and the Changing City Center
Marisol García and Núria Claver 113

7 The Evolution of Australian Tourism Urbanization
Patrick Mullins 126

Part III: Regulating Labor Markets 143

8 Regulating Hospitality: Tourism Workers in New York and Los Angeles
David L. Gladstone and Susan S. Fainstein 145

9 Shaping the Tourism Labor Market in Montreal
Marc V. Levine 167

Part IV: Regulating the Tourism Industry 185

10 Mexico: Tensions in the Fordist Model of Tourism Development
Daniel Hiernaux-Nicolas 187

11 The New Berlin: Marketing the City of Dreams
Hartmut Häussermann and Claire Colomb 200

12 Museums as Flagships of Urban Development
Chris Hamnett and Noam Shoval 219

Part V: Conclusion 237

13 Making Theoretical Sense of Tourism
Susan S. Fainstein, Lily M. Hoffman, and Dennis R. Judd 239

Index 254

Subject Areas: Geography [RG]
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