The authors of this book use regulation theory to bring theoretical focus and analytic clarity to the study of urban tourism. The book opens and closes with chapters that analyze urban tourism within the context of a restructured global economy and its interaction with local and global cultural tendencies. The editors and contributors emphasize the role of the state at different spatial scales in the production of the tourist city, examine the ways in which urban images are created, and investigate the place of sports, art museums, and other cultural forms in creating the tourism milieu. Original chapters written by leading scholars illuminate their theoretical perspective with studies of Venice, Mexico, Montreal, New York, Los Angeles, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, and Australia's Gold Coast.

These studies are grouped into four categories: regulating tourists, city space, labor markets, and the tourism industry. The regulation framework allows the editors and contributors to show how the political, economic, and cultural elements of urban tourism constitute an interwoven whole.

Lily M. Hoffman is Associate Professor and Director of the Rosenberg/Humphrey Program in Public Policy at City College/CUNY.

Susan S. Fainstein is Professor of Urban Planning at Columbia University.

Dennis R. Judd is Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

List of Illustrations vii

List of Tables ix

List of Contributors xi

Series Editors' Preface xv

Preface xvi

Introduction 1
Susan S. Fainstein, Lily M. Hoffman, and Dennis R. Judd

Part I: Regulating Visitors 21

1 Visitors and the Spatial Ecology of the City
Dennis R. Judd 23

2 Cities, Security, and Visitors: Managing Mega-Events in France
Sophie Body-Gendrot 39

3 Sociological Theories of Tourism and Regulation Theory
Nicolò Costa and Guido Martinotti 53

Part II: Regulating City Space 73

4 Amsterdam: It's All in the Mix
Pieter Terhorst, Jacques van de Ven, and Leon Deben 75

5 Revalorizing the Inner City: Tourism and Regulation in Harlem
Lily M. Hoffman 91

6 Barcelona: Governing Coalitions, Visitors, and the Changing City Center
Marisol García and Núria Claver 113

7 The Evolution of Australian Tourism Urbanization
Patrick Mullins 126

Part III: Regulating Labor Markets 143

8 Regulating Hospitality: Tourism Workers in New York and Los Angeles
David L. Gladstone and Susan S. Fainstein 145

9 Shaping the Tourism Labor Market in Montreal
Marc V. Levine 167

Part IV: Regulating the Tourism Industry 185

10 Mexico: Tensions in the Fordist Model of Tourism Development
Daniel Hiernaux-Nicolas 187

11 The New Berlin: Marketing the City of Dreams
Hartmut Häussermann and Claire Colomb 200

12 Museums as Flagships of Urban Development
Chris Hamnett and Noam Shoval 219

Part V: Conclusion 237

13 Making Theoretical Sense of Tourism
Susan S. Fainstein, Lily M. Hoffman, and Dennis R. Judd 239

Index 254