Geography Reference
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Figure 5.5:
A systems approach to
urban tourism
Source:
Page (1995a)
a spatiality, where the cultural industries that embody the arts, leisure and tourism. Dear
and Flusty (1998) coined a number of buzz words to describe the postmodern urbanscape
including:
•
privatopia,
an edge city residential form and housing development on the periphery
•
cultures of heteropolis,
where cultural diversity and social polarity arise from the
combined processes of racism, structural inequality, homelessness and social unrest
•
the city as a theme park,
embodied in Hannigan's (1998)
Fantasy City
•
the fortified city,
where residents' concerns with safety, fear and crime have created
'fortified cells of affluence' juxtaposed with 'places of terror', where police seek to try
and control crime
•
interdictory space,
where spaces within cities exclude people through their activities
and design (i.e. shopping malls as private spaces that have replaced high streets as
public spaces).
In the postmodern city, Dear and Flusty (1998) argued that
The concentric ring structure of the Chicago School [eg. Burgess 1925]
was essentially a concept of the city as an organic accretion around a
central, organising cove. Instead, we have identified a postmodern urban
process in which the urban periphery organises the centre within the
context of a globalising capitalium.
(Dear and Flusty 1998:65)
