Le tourisme, fabrique d’urbanité

Tourism is an urban phenomenon. Invented by urbanites, it carries their values and norms, embodies their practices. However, the hypothesis of the urbaness (i.e. the properties that make a city is a city) of tourist places still remains to investigate. The urban still remains mixed up with one type...

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Main Author: Vincent Coëffé
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Éditions Touristiques Européennes 2010-12-01
Series:Mondes du Tourisme
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/tourisme/277
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description Tourism is an urban phenomenon. Invented by urbanites, it carries their values and norms, embodies their practices. However, the hypothesis of the urbaness (i.e. the properties that make a city is a city) of tourist places still remains to investigate. The urban still remains mixed up with one type of urban place, the city. The city is a culturally situated object, seized at first by its material shape (compactness) and by its “mass”. Yet, the tourist places show other urban situations, apart from the model of the “classic” city. The urban components are ordered in a singular way. Analyzing places by the practices performed by tourists becomes decisive, through the way the tourists manage the distance between them and with the world. The touristic places are not necessarily less urban than the city, they are urban in another way. The differentials of urbaness are therefore relevant to analyze.
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spelling doaj.art-dcad87bcde184602ba52cff2237741752022-12-22T00:50:47ZengÉditions Touristiques EuropéennesMondes du Tourisme2109-56712492-75032010-12-012576910.4000/tourisme.277Le tourisme, fabrique d’urbanitéVincent CoëfféTourism is an urban phenomenon. Invented by urbanites, it carries their values and norms, embodies their practices. However, the hypothesis of the urbaness (i.e. the properties that make a city is a city) of tourist places still remains to investigate. The urban still remains mixed up with one type of urban place, the city. The city is a culturally situated object, seized at first by its material shape (compactness) and by its “mass”. Yet, the tourist places show other urban situations, apart from the model of the “classic” city. The urban components are ordered in a singular way. Analyzing places by the practices performed by tourists becomes decisive, through the way the tourists manage the distance between them and with the world. The touristic places are not necessarily less urban than the city, they are urban in another way. The differentials of urbaness are therefore relevant to analyze.http://journals.openedition.org/tourisme/277tourisme urbainurbanisme et tourismeurbanisme touristiqueurbanité
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Le tourisme, fabrique d’urbanité
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tourisme urbain
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title Le tourisme, fabrique d’urbanité
title_full Le tourisme, fabrique d’urbanité
title_fullStr Le tourisme, fabrique d’urbanité
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title_short Le tourisme, fabrique d’urbanité
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urbanisme et tourisme
urbanisme touristique
urbanité
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