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Venice, the tourist maze: a cultural critique of the world's most touristed city

Robert C. Davis and Garry R. Marvin
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  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright and Permissions
  • Illustrations
    • Figures
    • Maps
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note to Readers
  • Frontispiece
  • Introduction The City Built on the Sea
  • Part One Timescape
    • Chapter 1 Pilgrims' Rest
    • Chapter 2 Strumpets and Trumps
  • Part Two Landscape
    • Chapter 3 The Heart of the Matter
    • Chapter 4 Lost in the Labyrinth
    • Chapter 5 Contested Ground
  • Part Three Seascape
    • Chapter 6 The Floating Signifier
    • Chapter 7 Behind the Stage
    • Chapter 8 Dangerous Waters
  • Part Four Worldscape
    • Chapter 9 Restoration Comedies
    • Chapter 10 Ships and Fools
    • Chapter 11 Taking It All Home
  • Afterword Chi ciapa schei xe contento
  • Notes
    • List of Abbreviations
    • Introduction. The City Built on the Sea
    • Chapter 1. Pilgrims' Rest
    • Chapter 2. Strumpets and Trumps
    • Chapter 3. The Heart of the Matter
    • Chapter 4. Lost in the Labyrinth
    • Chapter 5. Contested Ground
    • Chapter 6. The Floating Signifier
    • Chapter 7. Behind the Stage
    • Chapter 8. Dangerous Waters
    • Chapter 9. Restoration Comedies
    • Chapter 10. Ships and Fools
    • Chapter 11. Taking It All Home
    • Afterword. Chi ciapa schei xe contento
  • Bibliography
    • [Intro]
    • Primary Narrative Sources
    • Guidebooks
    • Secondary Sources
    • Newspaper and Magazine Articles
    • Films and Television Programs
    • Websites
    • Archival Sources
  • Index
    • A-G
    • H-O
    • P-Z
  • About the Authors
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Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
AJP 105.4 (Winter 1984): 484-489 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9475%28198424%29105%3A4%3C484%3ATSWEAP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-T
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heb04060.0001.001 Venezia: La citta nella storia d'Italia. Bellavitis, Giorgio. Bari: Editori Laterza, 1985.
heb04050.0001.001 Coping with Tourists: European Reactions to Mass Tourism. Boissevain, Jeremy. Providence: Berghahn Books, 1996.
The Evolution of the Grand Tour: Anglo-Italian Cultural Relations since the Renaissance. Chaney, Edward. New York: Frank Cass Publishers, 1998.
Viaggi e turismo a Venezia: dal 1500 al 1900. Cosulich, Alberto. Venezia: Edizione I Sette, 1990.
Una provincia ospitale: Itinerari di ricerca sul sistema turistico veneziano. Di Monte, Giuseppina, and Isabella Scaramuzzi. Bologna: Il Mulino, 1996.
Consumer Culture and Postmodernism. Featherstone, Mike. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1991.
Undoing Culture: Globalization, Postmodernism, and Identity. Featherstone, Mike. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1995.
Commercio e città: Un laboratorio per il piano commerciale di Venezia. Pedenzini, Christiana, and Isabella Scaramuzzi. Bologna: Il Mulino, 1997.
Venice and the Grand Tour. Redford, Bruce. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.
The Tourist Image: Myths and Myth Making in Tourism. Selwyn, Tom. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, Ltd., 1996.
Hosts and Guests: The Anthropology of Tourism. Smith, Valene L. Philadephia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1977.
Consuming Places. Urry, John. London: Routledge, 1995.
The Tourist Gaze: Leisure and Travel in Contemporary Societies. Urry, John. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1990.
Tourism and Urban Development. van der Borg, Jan. Amsterdam: Thesis Publishers, 1991.
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Published: 2005
Publisher: University of California Press
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  • 9780520238039 (hardcover)
  • 9780520241206 (paper)
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  • European: General & Multiperiod

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(Image from Museo Correr, Archivio Fotografico, M.9304.)

Seventeenth-century Carnival in Piazza San Marco.

Figure 1. Seventeenth-century Carnival in Piazza San Marco.

(Image from Museo Correr, Archivio Fotografico, V.3421.)

Pietro Longhi, The Ridotto.

Figure 2. Pietro Longhi, The Ridotto.

Piazza San Marco.

Piazza San Marco.

Map 1. Piazza San Marco.

(Photo by authors.)

Tourist crowds in front of the Basilica of San Marco.

Figure 3. Tourist crowds in front of the Basilica of San Marco.

(Photo by authors.)

The Ponte della Paglia during tourist season.

Figure 4. The Ponte della Paglia during tourist season.

(Photo by Philip Grabsky.)

Tourists waiting in line to enter the Basilica of San Marco.

Figure 5. Tourists waiting in line to enter the Basilica of San Marco.

(Photo by Philip Grabsky.)

Posing with pigeons in Piazza San Marco.

Figure 6. Posing with pigeons in Piazza San Marco.

Venice.

Venice.

Map 2. Venice.

(Photo by authors.)

View south from the Rialto Bridge.

Figure 7. View south from the Rialto Bridge.

(Photo by authors.)

View of the Galleria dell'Accademia from the Ponte dell'Accademia.

Figure 8. View of the Galleria dell'Accademia from the Ponte dell'Accademia.

(Photo by authors.)

View along the Calle Saoneri.

Figure 9. View along the Calle Saoneri.

Social zones of Venice.

Social zones of Venice.

Map 3. Social zones of Venice.

(Photo by authors.)

Tourists on the steps of Piazza San Marco.

Figure 10. Tourists on the steps of Piazza San Marco.

(Photo by Philip Grabsky.)

Tourists crossing the Ponte de le Ostreghe.

Figure 11. Tourists crossing the Ponte de le Ostreghe.

(Photo by authors.)

Tourists on the steps at San Salvador.

Figure 12. Tourists on the steps at San Salvador.

(Photo by Ana Maria Isaías Nunes de Almeida.)

Vu' cumprà and San Giorgio Maggiore.

Figure 13. Vu' cumprà and San Giorgio Maggiore.

(Photo by authors.)

Plateatici at Campo Santa Maria Formosa.

Figure 14. Plateatici at Campo Santa Maria Formosa.

(Image from Museo Correr, Archivio Fotografico, M.570.)

Gridar gondola in the nineteenth century.

Figure 15. Gridar gondola in the nineteenth century.

(Image from Museo Correr, Archivio Fotografico, V.7758.)

First vaporetto and landing stage, 1881.

Figure 16. First vaporetto and landing stage, 1881.

(Image from Museo Correr, Archivio Fotografico, M.24307.)

Gondola in the seventeenth century.

Figure 17. Gondola in the seventeenth century.

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