Ephemeral cities / Mark Nunes -- Public space, urban space and electronic space / Mike Crang -- Demonstrating the globe / Tiziana Terranova -- The space of telework / Nicola Morelli -- The gaze without eyes / Hille Koskela -- Telecommunications and the future of cities / Stephen Graham -- Monocultures of globalization / David Holmes -- Identity tourism, virtuality and the theme park / Michael J. Ostwald -- Architectures of entertainment / Brian Morris -- The city as tourist spectacle / Gordon Waitt -- Resort curtilages / Brian King and Peter Spearritt.
Summary
This book examines the interrelationship between telecommunications and tourism in shaping the nature of space, place and the urban at the end of the twentieth century.