This book reintroduces the idea of the city as a territorial concept. The use of the built environment as a lens will place globalization debates in the specific context of national, regional and local expression.

Preface. The Contributors. Prologue. 1. Consuming Tradition, Manufacturing Heritage: Global Norms and Urban Forms in the Age of Tourism. Tradition and Tourism: Rethinking the "Other". 2. Tourism Encounters: Inter-and Intra-Cultural Conflicts and the World's Largest Industry. 3. Learning to Consume: What is Heritage and When is it Traditional? 4. Openings to Each Other in the Technological Age. Imaging the Manufacturing Heritage 5. Colonial Nostalgia and Cultures of Travel: Spaces of Constructed Visibility in Egypt. 6. Everyday Attractions: Tourism and the Generation of Instant Heritage in Nineteenth Century San Francisco -. 7. Re-Presenting and Representing the Vernacular: The Open-Air Museum. Manufacturing and Consuming: Global and Local. 8. Making the Nation: The Politics of Heritage in Egypt. 9. The 'Old-New Jaffa': Tourism, Gentrification, and the Battle for Tel Aviv's Arab Neighbourhood. 10. Image Making, City Marketing, and the Aesthetization of Social Inequality in Rio de Janeiro. Epilogue. 11. 'Authentic Anxieties'.