Locative Tourism Applications: A Sensory Ethnography of the Augmented City

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Departure points and orientations
	Chapter 1: Departure points
		A brief tour of tourism studies
			Between gaze and performance
			Tourism research’s digital blind spot
		The construction and perception of urban space
			Cultural geography and the construction of space
			Representations and perceptions of the city
		Locative media and the construction of augmented destination space
			Locative media
			The augmented city and the informational layer
			Urban markup: (co-)authoring the layered city
			Connecting and disconnecting (or, being in two places at once)
		Directions for research
		Notes
	Chapter 2: Orientations
		Sense and the city
			Sight and the (modern) city
			Unruly sensations
		Sensing the city
			Locative media as a practice of ‘‘sensing the city’’
			Sensory ethnography
			Multi-sited sensory ethnography: the importance of "being there" with locative apps
			Sensory ethnography on the move: rhythm, mobility, and the co-production of the locative tour
		Locative tourism on a shifting stage: methodological challenges and reflections
Part II: A tour of locative tourism apps: Between gaze and performance
	Chapter 3: Gaze
		Framing the city
			Taking the museum to the street in London
			Gamifying the tourist gaze in Edinburgh
			In and out of frame in New Orleans
		Constructing (and contesting) the urban brand
			Re-presenting the branded city
			Directing the gaze in Derry
		Sensing the city (with app in hand)
			‘‘If you see one thing in Seattle, see everything’’: augmenting the panorama
			Touching the city
			Other(ed) senses in tourism
			Engaging the sixth sense in New Orleans
			Performing place pastiche in Hong Kong
		Notes
	Chapter 4: Performance
		In place, out of sync: the rhythms of the locative tour
			Orientation and disjuncture
			Rhythms and the city: falling out of place and out of pace
			Performing the glitch
		Ruin and mastery: narratives of change and development
			Contrasting narratives of development and change in Melbourne
			The smell of progress
			Nature, civilisation, and simulacra in the locative tour
			Narratives of authenticity in San Francisco
		Encountering the other in layered space
			Multiplying the readings of the city: authorship, mapping, and countermapping
			Reorienting the map in Dublin
			Queering the map in Toronto
			Encountering the other
		Note
Part III: A tale of two cities (case studies)
	Chapter 5: A city of gaps: Mediating the ruin in Christchurch
		“Nothing to see here”: tourism and place branding in the wake of disaster
			Placemaking on High Street
		Sensing the ruin in Christchurch
		Rhythms and (dis)orientation
			You are (not) here
			Phantom landmarks and disorientation on High Street
			Locative rhythms on High Street
		The writing on the wall: encountering layered urban inscriptions
			Nature as urban inscription
			Future imaginaries: engaging with the rebuild
			Haunted imaginaries
		Notes
	Chapter 6: A city of screens: Augmenting the branded cityscape in Montreal
		Locative encounters in Old Montreal
			Shaping urban atmospheres
			Smooth operators: rhythms, tour guides, and the ‘smoothing out’ of experience
			The Grand Tableau: getting the “big picture” in Old Montreal
		Augmenting the branded cityscape
			Mapping brand values in Montreal
			Carnivalesque brandscapes and branded multiculturalism
		The city as screen
			Montreal by night: a highlight reel
			Haunted Montreal
			The city looks back: intimate gaze and surveillance in Montréal en Histoires
			Sensing the tourist
		Re-enchanting the city
			"The Creation of the World"
		A tale of two cities
		Notes
Conclusion
Appendix: Twelve-city tour of applications
Bibliography
Index