Crossing the borderline takes you to heaven: working classes consumption tourism and frontier conurbations in South America
| Autor: | Braga, Andrea da Costa, Rigatti, Décio |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Tourist trade and city planning -- Brasil -- Rivera
Frontiers -- Social aspects Consumption tourism Urban structure Fronteres -- Aspectes socials Urbanisme::Aspectes socials [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC] Turisme i urbanisme -- Brasil -- Rivera Turisme i urbanisme -- Uruguay -- Rivera Tourist trade and city planning -- Uruguay -- Rivera Centrality Tax free zones Frontier conurbations Cities and towns -- Growth Desenvolupament urbà |
| Zdroj: | UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) |
| Popis: | The borderline between Brazil and Uruguay (South America) is punctuated by “twin cities” settlements established for surveillance since late 19th century. Insulated from the denser urban net spreading from Porto Alegre / BRAZIL and from Montevideo / URUGUAY, they became important commercial nodes. Uruguay government created tax free zones in some of these towns from 1985 on, to strengthen the region economy. From 2005 on, Brazilian ever increasing economical stability and favorable exchange rates turned these borderline sleepy towns into overcrowded weekend bazaars. The discussion focuses on the “borderline conurbations” urban structures in consolidating trends and patterns of regional working classes consumption tourism and its impacts on built heritage conservation, land use patterns and centralities. Spatial transformations promoted by the allocation of touristic and shopping infrastructure are analyzed using Space Syntax methodology to describe the importance of spatial structure for tourist’s movement about the conurbations. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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