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Golden Geese Or White Elephants? The Paradoxes Of World Heritage Sites And Community-Based Tourism Development In Agra, India, Clara Irazabal, Surajit Chakravarty
Golden Geese Or White Elephants? The Paradoxes Of World Heritage Sites And Community-Based Tourism Development In Agra, India, Clara Irazabal, Surajit Chakravarty
Clara Irazabal
This study examines the relationship between World Heritage Sites (WHSs) and local community development in Agra, India. We investigate two interrelated themes: the role of planning in developing the tourism potential of the Taj Mahal and other WHSs in Agra, and the impact of the WHS framework on the development of the city. We analyze the weaknesses of the institutions and agencies responsible for Agra’s inability to convert the development potential created by its three WHSs into significant economic, community and infrastructure improvements. The Agra case reveals a set of developmental paradoxes, whereby the restructuring of the tourist industry induced …
The Scheherazade Syndrome: Fiction And Fact In Dubai’S Quest To Become A Global City, Clara Irazabal, Alamira Hashim, Greta Byrum
The Scheherazade Syndrome: Fiction And Fact In Dubai’S Quest To Become A Global City, Clara Irazabal, Alamira Hashim, Greta Byrum
Clara Irazabal
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Realizing Planning's Emancipatory Promise: Learning From Regime Theory To Strengthen Communicative Action, Clara Irazabal
Realizing Planning's Emancipatory Promise: Learning From Regime Theory To Strengthen Communicative Action, Clara Irazabal
Clara Irazabal
This article informs communicative action theory with insights from urban regime theory. The synthesis proposes a model of planning that is more comprehensive in its treatment of the linkages between planning and governance and helps advance the creation of network power, emancipatory knowledge, empowering subjectivities, and spaces of solidarity. The article then discusses the merits of these insights in the context of a categorization of planning into traditional, democratic, advocacy, and incremental approaches.
Entertainment-Retail Centres In Hong Kong And Los Angeles: Trends And Lessons, Clara Irazabal, Surajit Chakravarty
Entertainment-Retail Centres In Hong Kong And Los Angeles: Trends And Lessons, Clara Irazabal, Surajit Chakravarty
Clara Irazabal
This paper examines the evolution and recent trends in the design of Entertainment Retail Centres (ERCs) in Los Angeles and Hong Kong. Most of the literature on spaces of consumption and leisure deals with economic reasons for the development of these spaces, and with the social, cultural, and political implications of the phenomenon. There are limitations to this approach that this study addresses. First, there has been a lack of attention to processes of globalization in the analysis of these spaces. Furthermore, a largely US-centred approach has left out an understanding of the significance of the ERC phenomenon in other …
Kitsch Is Dead, Long Live Kitsch: The Production Of Hyperkitsch In Las Vegas, Clara Irazabal
Kitsch Is Dead, Long Live Kitsch: The Production Of Hyperkitsch In Las Vegas, Clara Irazabal
Clara Irazabal
This study investigates the production ofhyperreality and kitsch in the latest generation of hotel-casino developments in Las Vegas. In these environments, visual imagery is manipulated for the creation of spectacle and a sense of alienation from time and reality. This suspension of real time and space is aimed at both facilitating the production of a simulated environment as "natural" and producing ideal sites for pleasure and consumption. Building upon the concepts of hyperreality and kitsch, this study proposes the framework of hyperkitsch to understand Las Vegas ' contribution to contemporary urbanization. Through four case studies, this paper suggests that the …
Do Pruitt-Igoe Ao World Trade Center: Planejando A Ex/Implosão Do (Pos)Modernismo, Clara Irazabal
Do Pruitt-Igoe Ao World Trade Center: Planejando A Ex/Implosão Do (Pos)Modernismo, Clara Irazabal
Clara Irazabal
O artigo discute, em meio a conceitos de pós-modernidade, as semelhanças na destruição de dois marcos da arquitetura moderna: o conjunto residencial Pruitt-Igoe (PI) e o World Trade Center (WTC). Argumenta que a destruição, tanto do PI como do WTC, deveu-se não apenas à questão física (no PI, uma destruição planejada pela sociedade, e no WTC, uma destruição por ela não planejada); pelo contrário, a queda de ambos os edifícios seria uma materialização do fim do pensamento modernista, do qual seriam símbolos. Contrariamente ao que foi dito a respeito do 11/09/2001, propõe que naquela hora o mundo já havia mudado …