1st Edition
Consuming Tradition, Manufacturing Heritage Global Norms and Urban Forms in the Age of Tourism
Edited By Nezar Alsayyad
Copyright 2001
320 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
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From the Grand Tour to today's packages holidays, the last two centuries have witnessed an exponential growth in travel and tourism and, as the twenty-first century unfolds, people of every class and from every country will be wandering to every part of the planet. Meanwhile tourist destinations throughout the world find themselves in ever more fierce competition - those places marginalized in... Read more
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'.
Biography
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.
'This book not only offers a broad and thoughtful exploration of heritage and tradition, but does so in an engaging, perceptive, and considered way, contributing significantly to current tourism discourse.' - Environment and Planning A
'This volume offers an interesting discourse on important concepts in heritage, its creation, propagation, and importance to national identity.' - Annual of Tourism Research
