Venice, the Tourist Maze - A Cultural Critique of the World's Most Touristed City (Paperback)

""Venice, the Tourist Maze" is a popular history of the tragic, at times comic, impact of mass tourism on Venice. The outlook for Venice as a living city seems bleak, but the story is fascinating. Davis and Marvin draw on everything from Baedekers to the local papers and contemporary interviews to examine the effect of this flood of people on urban experience and the delicate fabric of the city, depicting at best an aestheticized museum city, at worst a degraded theme park. In effect, the authors argue, Venice survives as a surreal image of itself. This is a fascinating and well-written book."--Carol Lansing, author of "Power & Purity: Cathar Heresy in Medieval Italy"
"Anyone inclined to pick up this book will experience over and over in the course of reading it shivers of intellectual play. For some, half the stimulation comes with the dismantling of a worn-out legend: Venice, the Most Romantic City in the World. For others, it will come while musing on the vivid contradictions revealing that what is good for Venice in the short term--revenue from tourism--is killing the city in the ever nearer long term. The authors may unwittingly encourage even more tourists to go to Venice for the most post-modern of reasons: to observe tourists observing the most touristed city in the world. "Venice, The Tourist Maze" is engrossing, amusing, fascinating, and troubling."--Sally McKee, author of "Uncommon Dominion, Venetian Crete and the Myth of Ethnic Purity"

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2004
First published:	June 2004
Authors:	Robert C. Davis • Garry Marvin
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	372
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-24120-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > History > European history > General
LSN:	0-520-24120-7
Barcode:	9780520241206

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!