Urbanism, Landscape, and Tourism Studies

Researchers working at the intersection of urbanism, landscape, and tourism examine how places accumulate meaning over time and how that meaning is mobilized — or distorted — when sites become destinations. The built environments, agricultural patterns, and industrial remnants that communities inherit from the past are not neutral backdrops; they encode social histories and shape how outsiders and locals alike understand belonging and identity. A central tension driving current work is whether tourism generates the resources needed to preserve and interpret cultural landscapes, or whether visitor pressure and heritage commodification gradually hollow out the very character that made a place worth visiting. Active debates focus on how rural and post-industrial communities can retain meaningful agency in territorial development decisions rather than ceding that role to external planners, investors, or platform-driven markets.

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124,226

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Keywords

Cultural LandscapeTourismHeritageTerritorial DevelopmentIndustrial HeritageRural Tourism