Title & Author:

The tourist city Berlin : tourism and architecture / edited by Jana Richter.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Salenstein : Braun ; London : Thames & Hudson [distributor], 2010.

Description:

351 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Berlin is a tourist city / Jana Richter and Katja Zimmerling -- Touristic apacea and the phenomena of their use / Jana Richter ... [et al.] -- Hiastory of Berlin's sights based on the Baedeker travel guide / Jana Richter and Katja Zimmerling -- Catalogue of Berlin's top sights / Jana Richter, Michaela Hillmer -- The transformation of architecture through urban tourism in Berlin / Jana Richter -- What's new about new urban tourism? And what do recent changes in travel imply for the 'Tourist City' Berlin / Johannes Novy -- Spatial arrangements and mediation in sightseeing bus tours / Ignacio Farias -- Viewers are the new users / Henri praeger -- Collecting the icon or: semantics of tourism / Daniela Konrad -- Urbanisms of the permanent tourist / Deane Simpson -- Tourist cities versus tourist resorts / Juan Palop Casado -- Metropol parasol / Jürgen Mayer H., Jan-Christoph Stockebrand -- Old sights-new shops / Ralf Stulhofer -- Shifting city Berlin / Dirk Hoffmann, Sacha Pazderski -- Artificial-Mitte / Sina Firnkes, Michaela Hillmer -- Mapping motional traces / Christoph Bukowski -- Tourist orientation without map / Hannes Müller.

Summary:

This publication examines the relationship between architecture, urban spaces and the current trend of city tourism. To begin with, the volume broaches the issue of the physical effects and the resulting spatial consequences that tourism has on Berlin.

ISBN:

9783037680582 (pbk.)
303768058X (pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture Germany Berlin.
Architecture and tourism Germany Berlin.
Architecture Allemagne Berlin.
Architecture et tourisme Allemagne Berlin.
Buildings, structures, etc.
Architecture.
Architecture and tourism.
Buildings.
Berlin (Germany) Buildings, structures, etc.
Germany Berlin.
Berlin Führer.
Berlin Architektur Führer.

Added entries:

Richter, Jana.

Tourist city Berlin : tourism & architecture

Holdings:

Location: Library main 279524
Call No.: BIB 215564
Status: Available