Tag: Tourism
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Rio de Janeiro and Rome in pursuit of tourism
City authorities take increasingly agressive measures aimed at attracting tourists and hiding urban poverty from visitors. How do Rome and Rio compare?
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From Hippies to Hipsters and Homelessness in Haight-Ashbury
San Francisco’s Haigh-Ashbury is known for 1967’s Summer of Love. The commodification of its ‘hippie heritage’ results in extreme micro-level inequalities. Iris van Gent takes us on a tour.
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The Exploited City Dweller
Tourists consuming everyday city life, by exploiting city dwellers. Daniela Brose uses the cycling city dweller of Amsterdam as example.
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Medieval Policy: Hungarian City to Build Anti-Refugee Wall
Cities in Hungary try to do everything they can to keep away refugees and other undesired people. Rothar Kolesa describes how Pushzővásársnyő considers to build back its medieval city walls.
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Reggio Calabria: Reviving After Earthquakes
Reggio Calabria has one of Italy’s most beautiful cityscapes. Will this earthquake-vulnerable city be able to prevent the region’s brain drain? Marta Perrone discusses.
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Banda Aceh: Town Beyond the Apocalypse
Steffen Fokkema explores Banda Aceh, still on the road to recovery following the 2004 tsunami.
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Sunny Beach: The resort dream on the Bulgarian seaside
From modernism to ‘mafia-Baroque’: Miroslav Damyanov describes the cultural and architectural changes in Bulgaria’s Sunny Beach over the past few decades.
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Manchester’s Northern Quarter: Fostering or Exploiting Authenticity?
Authenticity is often considered as the magic ingredient for cultural and commercial regeneration of post-industrial neighbourhoods. But what is considered authentic and to what extent can authenticity be ‘used’? Valerie van Lieshout looks for answers in Manchester’s Northern Quarter.
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Lost Vegas: A Night Walk on Fremont Street
Adam Nowek presents a photoessay of Fremont Street, the main gambling and entertainment district in the city Las Vegas.
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Finding Whose Right? A Paris Love (Lock) Story
Putting love locks on bridges has become a tourist hype. Nicole de Groot shows how both local inhabitants and city authorities in Paris are fed up with it.