TY - BOOK AU - Aitchison,Cara AU - MacLeod,Nicola E. AU - Shaw,Stephen J. TI - Leisure and tourism landscapes: social and cultural geographies T2 - Routledge advances in tourism SN - 0415170605 AV - GV14.5 .A57 2000 U1 - 306.4812 21 PY - 2000/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Tourism KW - Social aspects KW - Human geography N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-193) and index; 1; Introduction --; A place for leisure and tourism? --; From geography to geographies --; Theorizing the social-cultural nexus --; Social and cultural geographies of leisure and tourism landscapes --; 2; Locating Landscapes: Geographies of Leisure and Tourism --; Introduction --; Colonial geographies: mapping regional territories --; Systematic geographies: modelling land use and tourism --; Landscape evaluations: mapping scenic amenity in leisure and tourism --; Tourism geographies: topologies of land use --; Structuralist interpretations of leisure and tourism landscapes --; Post-colonial geographies of leisure and tourism --; Geography's cultural turn: the spatiality of leisure and tourism --; Leisure geographies of the street --; Tourism geographies of the spectacle and monument --; Geographies of social and cultural exclusion --; Overview --; 3; Moving Landscapes: Leisure and Tourism in Time and Space --; Introduction --; The Journey, travel and discovery --; Prospects of pleasure, landscapes of feeling --; Annihilating time and distance --; Landscape, leisure and mobility --; Road to nowhere? --; Overview --; 4; Valuing the Countryside: Leisure, Tourism and the Rural Landscape --; Introduction --; Nature was His book --; Access and exclusion Landscape fit for heroes --; A people's charter for the open air --; A countryside for all? --; Overview --; 5; IntroductionA landscape aesthetic? --; The socio-cultural context --; Landscape and imaginative reconstruction --; The Highlands of Scotland --; Ossianic tourism --; The Highlander in the picture --; The Highlands of Walter Scott --; Travelling in the Highlands --; Royal Patrons --; A Literary way of seeing --; The realHighlands --; Overview --; 6; Heritage Landscapes: Merging Past and Present --; Introduction --; The evolution of heritage --; Heritage in the landscape --; Stonehenge: multi-vocal landscape --; Avebury: evolving landscape --; Tintagel: Constructing and Consuming Leisure and Tourism --; Introduction --; Spatialized feminism --; Feminism and leisure landscapes --; Gendered space --; Deconstructing dualisms --; The gendered other --; Gender and landscapes of tourism --; Gender and landscapes of heritage --; Overview --; 8; Retrophilia and the Urban Landscape --; Introduction --; Antiquity, restoration and fake Reverence, worldliness and action --; Modernism, collective memory and amnesia --; Urban conservation and civic pride --; Commercialism, decadence and tourism --; The historic quarters of London's City Fringe --; Overview --; 9; Landscapes of Desire: Re-appropriating the City --; Introduction --; Queer space: material and symbolic landscapes --; Gay destinations: the landscape of the city --; Sexuality and spectacle: the landscape of the street --; Sexuality and hospitality: the landscape of the hotel --; Overview --; 10; Leisure, Tourism and Culture: Relocating Landscapes N2 - "In the post-industrial era, leisure, tourism, culture and heritage have asumed a central role in the shaping of our modern landscape. With a broadly inter-disciplinary focus, drawing from fields such as cultural studies, history, literature and geography, this book redefines the way we view our surroundings."--Publisher description ER -