Introduction Proximity and access to water have long been central to human culture and
accordingly deliver countless societal benefits. Over 200 million people live on Europe's …

Tourism Geography develops a critical understanding of how different geographies of
tourism are created and maintained. Drawing on both historical and contemporary …

How can small cities make an impact in a globalizing world dominated by 'world cities' and
urban development strategies aimed at increasing agglomeration? This book addresses the …

Throughout the history of urban forms, major urban design schemes and avant-garde design
of space have been mostly an outcome of economic growth of cities and countries. Marking …

This paper examines landscape transformations in the post-industrial city. It attempts to
portray, classify and understand the emerging landscapes in terms of land use patterns …

Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning 2 Page 1 Chapter 3 ‘Glocalising’ urban landscapes
Athens and the 2004 Olympics Elias Beriatos and Aspa Gospodini This chapter deals with …

Informational cities are prototypical cities of the knowledge society. If they are informational
world cities, they are new centers of power. According to Manuel Castells (1989), in those …

This paper deals with clusters of post-industrial urban economies and their impacts on the
spatial restructuring and the relandscaping of the contemporary inner city. It investigates …

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the role of revitalized historic urban waterfronts as
potential creative milieus attracting creative tourists. Waterfront redevelopment raises issues …

New cultural buildings are justified via reference to a range of objectives including city
image enhancement, national identity, tourism development, cultural engagement …