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Commoning the touristic city. Urban pedestrian routes and the ambiguous politics of exploration

Brahy, Rachel
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Pattaroni, Luca  
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Hoffman, Andrew
Sánchez-Fuarros, Iñigo
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Paiva, Daniel
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2023
Ambiance, Tourisme and the City

This chapter explores touristic infrastructures as politics of ambiance, paying attention to the way they enable urban environment and engage pedestrians to experience cities critically. This issue will be documented through an ethnographic study of two touristic “pedestrian paths” relying on artistic/plant facilities in the cities of Liège (Belgium) and Nantes (France). We will account in particular for the way those pedestrian paths frame the urban experience of tourists (or locals) at the same time orienting it (reducing the uncertainty) and opening it to the context, hence producing a peculiar contextual ambiance. On the basis of a first-person ethnographic experience and semi-directed interviews with “enchantment engineers”, this chapter will finally examine the political dimension of certain critical situations or statements, highlighting the construction of contrasting and politically differentiated tourist experiences.

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book part or chapter
DOI
10.4324/9781003207207-11
Author(s)
Brahy, Rachel
Pattaroni, Luca  
Hoffman, Andrew
Editors
Sánchez-Fuarros, Iñigo
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Paiva, Daniel
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Malet Calvo, Daniel
Date Issued

2023

Publisher

Routledge

Publisher place

London

Published in
Ambiance, Tourisme and the City
ISBN of the book

9781003207207

Total of pages

113-136

Start page

284

Subjects

urban studies

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tourism

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pragmatic sociology

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sociology of engagement

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urban sociology

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creative city

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REVIEWED

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July 5, 2023
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