Enhancing the City.

Giovanni MACIOCCO obtained a degree in Engineering at the University of Pisa and in Architecture at the University of Florence. He is Full Professor of Town and Regional Planning, Director of the Department of Architecture and Planning and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Sassari. His works include: Les lieux de l'eau et de la terre, (Lybra Immagine, 1998); Wastelands (Dedalo, 2000); Il progetto ambientale nelle aree di bordo, with Pittaluga P. (FrancoAngeli, 2006), Fundamental Trends in City Development (Springer, 2008), Urban Landscape Perspectives (Ed.) (Springer, 2008), The Territorial Future of the City (Ed.) (Springer, 2008), People and Space. New Forms of Interaction in City Project (Springer, 2009); Il potenziale urbano dei territori esterni with Sanna G. and Serreli S. (Eds.) (FrancoAngeli, 2009). Silvia SERRELI is a Researcher in Town and Regional Planning at the Faculty of Architecture University of Sassari. She has a Ph.D. in "Urban Planning Methodology" from "La Sapienza" University of Rome and a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Cagliari. Her works include: Le dimensioni plurali della citta ambientale. Prospettive di integrazione ambientale nel progetto del territorio (FrancoAngeli, 2004), Urban Landscape and an ecology of creativity, in Maciocco G. (Ed.) Urban Landscape Perspectives (Springer, 2008), Derelict places as "alternative" territories of the city, in Maciocco G. (Ed.) The Territorial Future of the City (Springer, 2008), Il potenziale urbano dei territori esterni with Maciocco G. and Sanna G. (Eds.) (FrancoAngeli, 2009).

• Enhancing the City: New Perspectives for Tourism and Leisure.- Enhancing the City: New Perspectives for Tourism and Leisure.- Leisure and Construction of Urban Consciousness.- Places for Leisure: Places for City.- Places for Leisure as Interactive Space of the City.- Urban Tourist Precincts as Sites of Play.- Authentic Places, Simulacrum Places.- The Tourist City, the Dream and the Reversal of Time.- Disney-ality and Forgetfulness: the Eu-topia of a Consolatory Place.- Creative Places and Cultural Matrices of the City.- Creativity of Places as a Resource for Cultural Tourism.- Historico-Cultural Sustainability and Urban Dynamics.- Leisure and Privatisation of Public Space.- Spaces of Consumption.- Shopping as an Urban Leisure Activity.- Urban Tourism and Hybrid Spaces.- Questioning the Urban in Urban Tourism.- The Ambivalent Space(s) of Tourism in Italian Colonial Libya.- Waterfront Retrieved: Buenos Aires’ Contrasting Leisure Experience.- Urban Populations and Rights of Citizenship.- Which Tourisms? Which Territories?.- Tourist Populations.- Tourism and Local Participation: What about the Citizens?.