This book looks at urban tourism as a source of contention and analyses conflicts that have emerged in cities of the Global North and South, exploring the various ways in which community groups, residents and other organizations have responded to - and challenged - tourism development in an international, comparative perspective.

Claire Colomb is Reader (Associate Professor) in Planning and Urban Sociology at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London (UK), and holds a first degree in Politics and Sociology (Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, France) and a PhD in Planning (University College London). Her research interests cover urban and regional governance, planning and urban regeneration in European cities, urban social movements, European spatial planning and territorial cooperation, and comparative planning. She is the author of Staging the New Berlin: Place Marketing and the Politics of Urban Reinvention (Routledge 2011).
Johannes Novy is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Spatial Planning in the School of Planning and Geography at Cardiff University (UK). He studied urban planning and urban studies in Germany, Italy and the United States and holds a PhD in Urban Planning from Columbia University, New York. His research interests cover urban and planning theory, urban (development) politics, urban tourism and leisure consumption. He co-edited Searching for the Just City (Routledge 2009).

Contents

List of tables and illustrations
Acknowledgements
Contributors

1. Urban tourism and its discontents: an introduction
(Johannes Novy and Claire Colomb)

2. No conflict? Discourses and management of tourism-related tensions in Paris
(Maria Gravari-Barbas and Sébastien Jacquot)

3. The selling (out) of Berlin and the de- and re-politicization of urban tourism in Europe's 'Capital of Cool'
(Johannes Novy)

4. Touristification and awakening civil society in post-socialist Prague
(Michaela Pixová and Jan Sládek)

5 Density wars in Silicon Beach: the struggle to mix new spaces for toil, stay and play in Santa Monica, California
(Deike Peters)

6. Contesting China's tourism wave. Identity politics, protest, and the rise of the Hongkonger city state movement
(Daniel Garrett)

7. From San Francisco's 'Tech Boom 2.0' to Valparaíso's UNESCO World Heritage Site: resistance to tourism gentrification in a comparative political perspective
(Florian Opillard)

8. Tourism provision as protest in 'post-conflict' Belfast
(Emily Bereskin)

9. The "No Grandi Navi" campaign. Protests against cruise tourism in Venice
(Michele Vianello)

10. Favela tourism: negotiating visitors, socio-economic benefits, image and representation in Pre-Olympics Rio de Janeiro
(Anne-Marie Broudehoux)

11. Politics as early as possible: democratising Olympics by contesting Olympic bids
(John Lauermann)

12. Attracting international tourism through mega-events and the birth of a conflict culture in Belo Horizonte
(Lucia Capanema Alvares, Altamiro S. Mol Bessa, Thiago Pinto Barbosa and Karina Machado de Castro Simão)

13. The right to Gaudí. What can we learn from the commoning of Park Güell, Barcelona?
(Albert Arias-Sans and Antonio Paolo Russo)

14. Of artisans, antique dealers, and ambulant vendors: culturally stratified conflicts in Buenos Aires' historic centre
(Jacob Lederman)

15. The abrupt rise (and fall) of creative entrepreneurs: socio-economic change, the visitor economy and social conflict in a traditional neighbourhood of Shanghai
(Non Arkaraprasertkul)

16. The Living vs. the dead in Singapore: contesting the authoritarian tourist city
(Jason D. Luger)

17. "Fantasies of antithesis": Assessing Hamburg's Gängeviertel as a tourist attraction
(Nina Fraeser)

Index