Urbanism, Landscape, and Tourism Studies

How places are shaped by human activity over time, and how people move through and assign meaning to those places, sits at the heart of research connecting urbanism, landscape, and tourism. Scholars working across geography, cultural studies, and heritage management examine how landscapes carry layered histories—from industrial sites and agricultural patterns to vernacular architecture—and how tourism both preserves and transforms those legacies. Central questions concern who gets to define what counts as heritage, how rural and post-industrial communities can engage with tourism development without losing control of their own territorial identities, and what sustainable stewardship of culturally significant land actually looks like in practice. Active work in the area is pushing toward more participatory methods that bring local communities into planning decisions, and toward frameworks that can account for the environmental as well as the social costs of heritage-driven economic development.

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121,274

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46,980

Keywords

Cultural LandscapeTourismHeritageTerritorial DevelopmentIndustrial HeritageRural Tourism