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  • Tourism - About Traveling and Vacationing in our Time

    by Kurt Luger ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Tourist travel has become part of the lifestyle of Western industrial society. For today’s travelers, recreation and curiosity, experiencing the world and gaining status have been the main motivations, whereas generating income or profit has been the focus of the more or less professional service providers who still style themselves ʹhostsʹ. But the benefits of tourism also have their drawbacks – ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • World Heritage, Place Making and Sustainable Tourism

    Towards Integrative Approaches in Heritage Management

    Edited by Kurt Luger, Matthias Ripp ...
    The management of World Heritage Cities and sites is a challenging task. Getting visitor flows and the enormous traffic under control and implementing urban development projects in ways that preserve the integrity and authenticity of cultural heritage requires a high level of expertise, backed by the support of civil society and politics. This book is the result of the 2018 Conference of the ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Flowscapes

    Designing infrastructure as landscape

    Edited by Van Der Hoeven Frank, Steffen Nijhuis, Jauslin Daniel ...
    Flowscapes explores concepts, methods and techniques for design-related research on landscape infrastructures. Their main objective is to engage environmental and societal issues by means of integrative and design oriented approaches. Through focusing on interdisciplinary design-related research of landscape infrastructures they provide important clues for the development of spatial armatures that ... Read more

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  • Future City

    Edited by Stephen Read, Jürgen Rosemann, Job van Eldijk ...
    This text focuses on cities as the dominant form of human settlement for the future, examining the transformation that is happening in urban connobations worldwide today. The last few decades have seen a rate of change and growth in cities that has never been seen before, resulting in giant metropoles with over twenty million inhabitants. This book tackles the causes of these changes, and looks at ... Read more

    $129.99 CAD

  • András Szántó. The Future of the Museum

    28 Dialogues

    by Neil Holt ...
    Series Book 6 - Hatje Cantz Text
    As museums worldwide shuttered in 2020 because of the coronavirus, New York-based cultural strategist András Szántó conducted a series of interviews with an international group of museum leaders. In a moment when economic, political, and cultural shifts are signaling the start of a new era, the directors speak candidly about the historical limitations and untapped potential of art museums. Each of ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Cultural Heritage and Tourism

    An Introduction

    by Dr. Dallen J. Timothy ...
    Series Book 7 - Aspects of Tourism Texts
    Comprehensive coverage of international cultural heritage tourism management.Cultural heritage is one of the most important tourism resources in the world. This book provides a comprehensive theoretical overview and applied knowledge of the issues, practices, current debates, concepts and management concerns associated with cultural heritage-based tourism.The second edition has been updated to ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Joined Forces

    Audience Participation in Theatre. Performing Urgencies #3

    by Jan Sowa, Dominique Nduhura, Antoine Pickels, Justine Boutens, Elena Basteri, Miriam Tscholl, Roger Bernat, Roberto Fratini Serafide, Ophelia Patricio Arrabal, Ana Vujanović, Tobi Müller, Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi, Daniel Wetzel, Rimini Protokoll, Lotte van den Berg, Tea Tupajić, Tom Sellar, Adelheid Roosen, Wojtek Ziemilski, Adam Czirak, Johanna Freiburg, Bastian Trost, Gob Squad ...
    Band 3 der von Florian Malzacher herausgegebenen englischsprachigen Reihe Performing Urgency. Im Kontext heutiger Politik, Wirtschaft und sich permanent verändernden kulturellen Trends kommt das traditionelle Theater mit seiner Trennung von aktiven Darstellern und passiven Zuschauern immer mehr aus der Mode. Zeitgenössische Künstler emanzipieren ihr Publikum, laden es auf die Bühne und in die ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Civilizing the Museum

    The Collected Writings of Elaine Heumann Gurian

    by Elaine Heumann Gurian ...
    Written over a thirty-five year career, the essays in Civilizing the Museum introduce students to the powerful, sometimes contested, and often unrealized notion that museums should welcome all because they house the collective memory of all.Drawing on her experience working in and with museums in the US and throughout the world, Author Elaine Heumann Gurian explores the possibilities for making ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Culture and Value

    Tourism, Heritage, and Property

    by Regina F. Bendix ...
    An "eminently readable" collection of essays exploring what happens when cultural heritage meets commerce ( Asian Ethnology).When heritage becomes a commodity, when culture is instrumental in driving tourism, and when individuals assert ownership over either, social, ideological, political, and economic motivations intertwine. Bestowing value on "culture" is itself a culturally rooted act, and the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Use Matters

    An Alternative History of Architecture

    Edited by Kenny Cupers ...
    From participatory architecture to interaction design, the question of how design accommodates use is driving inquiry in many creative fields. Expanding utility to embrace people’s everyday experience brings new promises for the social role of design. But this is nothing new. As the essays assembled in this collection show, interest in the elusive realm of the user was an essential part of ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • The Politics of Urban Water

    Changing Waterscapes in Amsterdam

    by Kimberley Kinder ...
    Fifty years ago, urban waterfronts were industrial, polluted, and diseased. Today, luxury homes and shops line riverbanks, harbors, and lakes across Europe and North America. The visual drama of physical reconstruction makes this transition look swift and decisive, but reimaging water is a slow process, punctuated by small cultural shifts and informal spatial seizures that change the meaning of ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Public Space and the Challenges of Urban Transformation in Europe

    Edited by Ali Madanipour, Sabine Knierbein, Aglaée Degros ...
    European cities are changing rapidly in part due to the process of de-industrialization, European integration and economic globalization. Within those cities public spaces are the meeting place of politics and culture, social and individual territories, instrumental and expressive concerns. Public Space and the Challenges of Urban Transformation in Europe investigates how European city authorities ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD