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Urban Tourist Precincts as Sites of Play

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This chapter examines the urban tourism precinct as an organised space for playful forms of leisure in the city. We argue that these spaces create an environment for leisured interaction where both visitor and host engage as mutual actors in urban “playgrounds”. The chapter commences with a conceptual overview of the urban tourism precinct. It then considers the notion of play through an analysis of selected seminal discourses. These discourses are linked to the precinct in the context of a play “space” within the city using data gathered from two studies conducted in The Rocks and Darling Harbour precincts in Sydney, Australia (Hayllar and Griffin 2005, 2006). The chapter concludes with a discussion on the implications for the design and management of urban tourism precincts.

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  1. School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism, University of Technology, PO Box 222, NSW 2070, Sydney, Lindfield, Australia

    Bruce Hayllar & Tony Griffin

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  1. Department of Architecture and Planning Faculty of Architecture, Alghero, University of Sassari, Palazzo del Pou Salit Piazza Duomo 6, 07041, Alghero, Italy

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Hayllar, B., Griffin, T. (2009). Urban Tourist Precincts as Sites of Play. In: Maciocco, G., Serreli, S. (eds) Enhancing the City. Urban and Landscape Perspectives, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2419-0_4

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