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In the current trend of increasing globalization, relationships are
evolving between global and local realities, rich and poor regions
of the world and 'old' and 'new' leisure and tourism patterns. The
tourist has become an active agent in their travel expereinces,
moving between and among multiple localities, in an environment of
transnational, interconnected social networks. In order to
understand the modern tourist, concepts of mobility have begun to
be applied to tourism studies and have questioned whether the word
tourism is any longer sufficient to describe the complex
socio-political milieu of people on the move. Bringing together
theoretical and practical issues, this edited volume analyses
tourism's wider role as an agent for the mobile modern population
of the world. Themes range from post-modern youth and independent
mobility to theoretical texts on hypermobility and citizenship
within global space and mobility, media and citizenship. Offering a
thought-provoking examination of modern tourism, this will be an
important text for students of tourism and human geography as well
as tourism professionals.
Generally, construction of dams is regarded as means of economic
progress in many countries. Major consequences of such projects are
the inundation of upstream areas and the resettlement of entire
communities in newly-built environments where they experience
dramatic transformation in their lifestyles. The present study
takes the Nubian resettlement experience after the creation of Lake
Nasser that submerged their old settlements, along the river Nile.
Following their resettlement, the design of the newly-built
environment disrupted the Nubian traditional lifestyles and
patterns of privacy mechanisms, territoriality and social
interaction. The inadequacy of the newly-built environment was
mainly attributed to the Nubians' transfer from spacious homes in
the old villages to compact contiguous houses in the new
settlements. The arrangement of these resettlement state built
houses, distributed on the basis of household size, has further
resulted in the fragmentation and the dispersion of traditional
kinship-based neighborhoods. Within an interdisciplinary approach,
the study is based on theoretical, historical and conceptual themes
and on empirical research. It sets out to examine the households'
responses towards, and adaptation mechanisms with, the newly-built
environment, looking critically at the achievements of imposed
top-down planning in meeting the socio-cultural and economic needs
of those resettled.
This book considers the socio-cultural and economic dynamics of
historical conservation with respect to what is sometimes called
'Islamic Cairo'. It aims to re-assess and to challenge the
upgrading and modi cation processes recently affecting the urban
and social fabric of Cairo's Historical City. Further, the study
seeks to incorporate the district's cultural diversity in the
city's future urban development. Despite the availability of the
1980 UNESCO Plan and the 1997 UNDP Plan for Historical Cairo's
rehabilitation, government policies remain insufficient and
fragmentary with a tendency to favour tourist-orientated projects.
The local population's attitudes and stakeholders' potential
participation remain largely ignored."
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