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Retrospect and Prospect of Managing the Heritage City
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By
G.J. Ashworth, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, PO Box 800, 9700-AV Groningen, The Netherlands
J.E. Tunbridge, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, K1S 5B6, Canada
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Description
The original publication of The Tourist-Historic City in 1990 reflected the growing importance of heritage to cities, and cities
to the creation and marketing of heritage products, not least within tourism. In response to the continuing rapid growth of interest
in this field, the concepts and models it introduced have subsequently been applied by urban planners and tourism managers in many different
contexts throughout the world. This extensively rewritten and restructured account of the tourist-historic city takes into consideration
the importance of these applications in reformulating and modifying theoretical concepts, developing practical methods of analysis and
policy formulation, as well as extending the geographical scope worldwide. Changes in the last decade include not only the growing importance
of heritage and associated heritage industries serving many social, political and economic users, but also the expanding role of cultural
products within tourism. In addition, the opening up of central and eastern Europe and the export of heritage ideas from western cities
to a wider world have emphasised the tension between a globalisation and a localisation of heritage and its expression in the tourist-historic
city.
In addition to detailed reworking of conceptual and case material, this book reviews theoretical developments triggered by
or otherwise related to the original, extends the arguments into the post-Communist world, and more generally develops them with respect
to countries most affected by the 1990s political transformations. The result is a review of the state of urban heritage tourism at the
turn of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the light of the extraordinary developments during the preceding decade, and of its
prospects for the years to come.
Audience
For teachers and advanced students in courses on heritage studies, cultural and heritage tourism, and more generally town planning, urban
management and policy studies, and cultural policy studies; and practitioners in heritage resource management, urban conservation planning
and management, urban tourism management and urban cultural policy.
Contents
Preface. Acknowledgements.
The Concept: Origin, Nature, Scope.
The city between two futures. The dimensions of the tourist-historic
city. Conceptual scope and structure. Global scope and selection. The tourist-historic city and theories of social constructivism.
The
Historic City.
Motivations and justifications. The rise of the urban conservation movement. The internationalism of urban conservation.
The consequences of success. Delimiting the historic city. The historic city: from form to function.
The Tourist City.
Tourism and heritage. Tourism and cities. Tourism and heritage and cities. Modelling the tourist city.
Modelling the Tourist-Historic
City.
The nature and use of a model. Establishing the model. Variations from the model. Limitations of the model.
Uses
and Users of the Tourist-Historic City.
Cohabitation and coincidence. The tourist-historic city as a location for urban functions.
Coexisting functions of the tourist-historic city. The users of the tourist-historic city.
The Planning, Management and Marketing
of the Tourist-Historic City
. The inevitability of management. Types of planning and management. A geography of planning approaches.
Classifying tourist-historic cities.
The Management of Monofunctional Tourist-Historic Cities.
Resource based historic
gems. Demand based tourist-historic cities. The monofunctional tourist-historic city in review.
The Management of Tourist-Historic
Elements in Large Multifunctional Cities.
The context. The big league tourist-historic cities. The second division. The large
multifunctional city: convergence.
The Management of Tourist-Historic Elements in Medium Sized Multifunctional Cities.
General characteristics. European regional capitals: Norwich, Groningen and Kraków. North American 'core gems': Québec
City, Charlestown and Savannah. Nurtured tourist-historic city: Ottawa. Constrained tourist-historic city: Pietermaritzburg. Urban revitalisation:
socio-economic motivations and the tourist-historic city. The medium sized multifunctional city: a synthesis.
Values, Issues
and Conclusions.
Values, contentious issues and the present perspective. Conclusions for conservation. Conclusions for tourism.
Conclusions for the city.
References.
Subject index. Author index. Place index.
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Hardbound, 348 pages, publication date: NOV-2000
ISBN-13: 978-0-08-043675-3
ISBN-10: 0-08-043675-7
Imprint: PERGAMON
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