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Consuming Tradition, Manufacturing Heritage: Global Norms and Urban Forms in the Age of Tourism

Contributor(s): Alsayyad, Nezar (Editor)

ISBN: 9780415239417

Publisher: Routledge

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Pub Date: December 14, 2000

Dewey: 338.4791

LCCN: 00045788

Lexile Code: 0000

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 1.00" H x 9.47" L x 6.45" W ( 1.33 lbs) 320 pages

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Description: This book reintroduces the idea of the city as a territorial concept. The use of the built environment as a lens will place globalization debates in the specific context of national, regional and local expression.

Review Quotes:

'This book not only offers a broad and thoughtful exploration of heritage and tradition, but does so in an engaging, perceptive, and considered way, contributing significantly to current tourism discourse.' - Environment and Planning A

'Combining a variety of issues based around tourism planning and consumption, it offers readers, specifically at a multi-based disciplinary postgraduate level, an insightful discussion of the contested notion of heritage.' - Environment and Planning A

'This volume offers an interesting discourse on important concepts in heritage, its creation, propagation, and importance to national identity.' - Annual of Tourism Research

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