The Infrastructure of Play: Building the Tourist City: Building the Tourist City

by Judd,Dennis R.

• ISBN13: 9780765609564
• ISBN10: 0765609568
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-10-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Through in-depth case studies, this timely volume shows how the new infrastructure of tourism has transformed cities throughout North America. It makes clear that the modern urban environment is being thoroughly altered to emphasize the growing tourism sector in such areas as renovated waterfronts, convention centers, downtown malls, sports stadiums, and entertainment districts

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Illustrations	vii
Preface	xi
Building the Tourist City: Editor's Introduction	3	(16)
Dennis R. Judd
Part I. An Era of City-Building
Urban Tourism and the Privatizing Discourses of Public Infrastructure	19	(31)
David C. Perry
Tourism and Entertainment as Local Economic Development: A National Survey	50	(27)
Dennis R. Judd
William Winter
William R. Barnes
Emily Stern
Part II. Building a Tourist Space
Building the Infrastructure of Urban Tourism: The Case of St. Louis	77	(27)
David Laslo
Claude Louishomme
Donald Phares
Dennis R. Judd
Indianapolis, a Sports Strategy, and the Redefinition of Downtown Redevelopment	104	(21)
Mark S. Rosentraub
If We Build It, They Will Come! Tourism-Based Economic Development in Baltimore	125	(43)
Donald F. Norris
From Waterhole to World City: Place-Luck and Public Agendas in Denver	168	(34)
Susan E. Clarke
Martin Saiz
Tourism and Strategic Competitiveness: Infrastructure Development in Mexico City	202	(13)
Daniel Hiernaux-Nicolas
Part III. Restructuring the Urban Environment
The Political Economy of Tourism Development in the San Diego-Tijuana Trans-Frontier Metropolis	215	(30)
Lawrence A. Herzog
Tourism Infrastructure and Urban Redevelopment in Montreal	245	(26)
Marc V. Levine
Tourism Infrastructure of a Postindustrial City: A Case Study of Vancouver, British Columbia	271	(25)
Alan Artibise
John Meligrana
The Infrastructure of Urban Tourism: A European Model? A Comparative Analysis of Mega-Projects in Four Eurocities	296	(25)
Leo van den Berg
Jan van der Borg
Antonio Paolo Russo
About the Editor and Contributors	321	(6)
Index	327