Imaginaires de l’abandon et pratiques touristiques à Détroit : des marges urbaines entre stigmatisation et valorisation
This article analyses the articulation between repulsive spatial imaginaries and tourist practices based on the case of Detroit, Michigan. An emblematic space of urban crisis and decline, Detroit is now undergoing a selective redevelopment that feeds urban narratives based on the idea of resilience...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Éditions Touristiques Européennes
2022-06-01
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| Series: | Mondes du Tourisme |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/tourisme/4749 |
| Summary: | This article analyses the articulation between repulsive spatial imaginaries and tourist practices based on the case of Detroit, Michigan. An emblematic space of urban crisis and decline, Detroit is now undergoing a selective redevelopment that feeds urban narratives based on the idea of resilience and improves the city’s image and tourist attractiveness. However, Detroit is still largely associated with massive abandonment and significant social, racial and economic problems. Specific tourist mobilities and practices paradoxically value these spatial markers of the urban crisis. It thus gives rise to a tourism of abandonment whose modalities and temporalities express the transition phase between urban decline and selective redevelopment that Detroit is currently experiencing. |
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| ISSN: | 2109-5671 2492-7503 |