Mobilities and Hospitable Cities

Edited By: Ezio Marra, Marxiano Melotti

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Urban life and mobility have been greatly affected by globalization and postmodernization. The essays here delve into a number of significant issues in urban research, including urban governance, city branding and commodification, and the conservation of the urban ecosystem.

Urban life and mobility have been greatly affected by globalization and postmodernization. This international collection of essays investigates a number of significant issues in urban…

Urban life and mobility have been greatly affected by globalization and postmodernization. This international collection of essays investigates a number of significant issues in urban research, including urban governance, city branding and commodification, urban fears and safety, and the conservation of the urban ecosystem. Also explored are the changing lifestyles in the urban environment, the increasing importance of tourism in the economy of metropolitan areas, and the interdependence of tourism, cultural heritage and local communities. The volume offers a range of case studies exploring New York, Orlando, Paris, Barcelona, Lisbon, Venice and the imitations of the latter in Boston, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and various Chinese towns. A specific section is devoted to other Italian cities, such as Rome, Florence, Naples, and Turin. It also provides an appendix detailing the “success story” of tourism degree programmes in European universities. The book is dedicated to the memory of Guido Martinotti, a leading Italian scholar widely known for his seminal contributions to urban sociology.

Ezio Marra is Professor of Urban Sociology at the University of Milano Bicocca, Italy, where he is Director of the International Laboratory of Tourism Sciences. He is co-editor of Altri turismi. Viaggi, esperienze, emozioni (with E. Ruspini; 2010), Altri turismi crescono. Turismi outdoor e turismi urbani (with E. Ruspini; 2011), and Cultura, territorio e turismo (with M. De Caro; 2012). His essays include “Migration, Tourism and Peace: Lampedusa as a Social Laboratory” in Anatolia – An International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research (2017).

Marxiano Melotti is Director of the Master’s degree in Museums, Heritage and Society at the Niccolò Cusano University, Rome, and was previously Lecturer of Sociology and Urban Culture at the University of Milano Bicocca, Italy. His publications include The Plastic Venuses. Archaeological Tourism and Post-Modern Society (2011) and “The Carnival of Fears: The 2016 Violence in Cologne” in Embodiment and Cultural Differences (2016).

Giandomenico Amendola, Silvano Belligni, Sophie Body-Gendrot, Guido Borelli, Nicolò Costa, Alan Fyall, Heather Hartnell, Ann Hemingway, Fiammetta Mignella Calvosa, Armando Montanari, Fiammetta Pilozzi, Fortunata Piselli, Angelo Presenza, Stefania Ravazzi, Ezio Marra