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Since its beginnings, tourism has inspired built environments that
have suggested reinvented relationships with their original
architectural inspirations. Copies, reinterpretations, and
simulacra still constitute some of the most familiar and popular
tourist attractions in the world. Some reinterpret archetypes such
as the ancient palace, the Renaissance villa, or the Mediterranean
village. Others duplicate the cities in which we lived in the past
or we still live today. And others realise perceptions of utopias
such as Shangri-La, Eden, or Paradise. Replicas – duplitecture
– and simulacra can have symbolic meaning for tourists, as merely
inspiring an atmosphere or as truly authentic, and their
relationship to original functions, for worship, accommodation,
leisure, or shopping. Tourism and Architectural Simulacra questions
and rethinks the different environments constructed or adapted both
for and by tourism exploring the relationship between the
architectural inspiration and its reproduction within the tourist
bubble. The wide range of geographical areas, eras, and subjects in
this book show that the expositions of simulacra and hyper reality
by Baudrillard, Deleuze, and Eco are surpassed by our complex
world. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach they offer original
insights of the complex relationship between tourism and
architecture. The chapters in this book were originally published
as a special issue of the Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change.
Tourism Fictions, Simulacra and Virtualities offers a new
understanding of tourism's interaction with space, questioning the
ways in which fictions, simulacra and virtualities express tourism
in the built environment and vice versa. Since its beginnings,
tourism has inspired themed built environments that have a
constitutive, and sometimes problematic, relationship with the
"real" world and its architectural references. This volume
questions and rethinks the different environments constructed or
adapted both for and by tourism exploring the relationship between
the "real" and the "unreal" within the tourist bubble and the ways
in which the real world inspires simulacra for tourism use.
Adopting an interdisciplinary approach this book touches on a wide
range of geographical areas, eras and subjects such as
post-socialist tourism in Poland, the Hawaiian imaginary in Las
Vegas, Rio de Janeiro's Little Africa, as well as multiple
instances of virtual reality in tourism. This timely and innovative
volume will be of great interest to upper level students,
researchers and academics in tourism, architecture, cultural
studies, geography and heritage studies.
Since its beginnings, tourism has inspired built environments that
have suggested reinvented relationships with their original
architectural inspirations. Copies, reinterpretations, and
simulacra still constitute some of the most familiar and popular
tourist attractions in the world. Some reinterpret archetypes such
as the ancient palace, the Renaissance villa, or the Mediterranean
village. Others duplicate the cities in which we lived in the past
or we still live today. And others realise perceptions of utopias
such as Shangri-La, Eden, or Paradise. Replicas - duplitecture -
and simulacra can have symbolic meaning for tourists, as merely
inspiring an atmosphere or as truly authentic, and their
relationship to original functions, for worship, accommodation,
leisure, or shopping. Tourism and Architectural Simulacra questions
and rethinks the different environments constructed or adapted both
for and by tourism exploring the relationship between the
architectural inspiration and its reproduction within the tourist
bubble. The wide range of geographical areas, eras, and subjects in
this book show that the expositions of simulacra and hyper reality
by Baudrillard, Deleuze, and Eco are surpassed by our complex
world. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach they offer original
insights of the complex relationship between tourism and
architecture. The chapters in this book were originally published
as a special issue of the Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change.
Tourism Fictions, Simulacra and Virtualities offers a new
understanding of tourism's interaction with space, questioning the
ways in which fictions, simulacra and virtualities express tourism
in the built environment and vice versa. Since its beginnings,
tourism has inspired themed built environments that have a
constitutive, and sometimes problematic, relationship with the
"real" world and its architectural references. This volume
questions and rethinks the different environments constructed or
adapted both for and by tourism exploring the relationship between
the "real" and the "unreal" within the tourist bubble and the ways
in which the real world inspires simulacra for tourism use.
Adopting an interdisciplinary approach this book touches on a wide
range of geographical areas, eras and subjects such as
post-socialist tourism in Poland, the Hawaiian imaginary in Las
Vegas, Rio de Janeiro's Little Africa, as well as multiple
instances of virtual reality in tourism. This timely and innovative
volume will be of great interest to upper level students,
researchers and academics in tourism, architecture, cultural
studies, geography and heritage studies.
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