This study illustrates multifaceted urbanization patterns and processes in a coastal region of Catalonia (northeastern Spain) as a paradigmatic example of the socio-economic transformations typically observed in the northern Mediterranean basin since World War II. By focusing on the expanding tourism industry, second-home expansion, infrastructural development and sprawl around traditional rural centres, the paper assesses the effects of long-term economic, demographic, social and cultural transformations on rural landscapes in Alt Emporda, the so-called “Catalan Tuscany”. The stratification of distinct urbanization waves and the underlying socio-economic processes observed in Alt Emporda reflect population dynamics and settlement morphologies typical of rural districts moving rapidly towards a suburban spatial organization. Recent urban dynamics in Mediterranean rural systems deserve further investigation in order to shed light on latent suburbanization processes involving marginal European regions.

Not only tourism: unravelling suburbanization, second-home expansion and “rural” sprawl in Catalonia, Spain

Evidence of urban land teleconnections and impacts on hinterlands

A cluster analysis involving 1,244 visitors to six popular recreational sites in the hinterland of Australia’s Gold Coast revealed diverse attitudes toward tourism development and product integration in this urban-rural fringe, although biocentric tendencies and a desire to maintain the hinterland in its present condition were dominant in all clusters. Hinterland protectives (n = 206) are not supportive of integrating the hinterland with the Gold Coast tourism product, while hinterland sharers (n = 406) strongly support integration and increased visitation. Hinterland neutrals (n = 231) do not have strong opinions about this issue, and integration ambivalents (n = 345) are caught between the desire to preserve and integrate the hinterland. Significant differences between the clusters were identified by site, motivation, group size, repeat visitation, duration of visit, age, residence, and education. These results indicate distinct dynamics in the urban-rural fringe and will potentially assist the sustaina...

Visitor Attitudes toward Tourism Development and Product Integration in an Australian Urban-Rural Fringe

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Contemporary tourism heritage as heritage tourism: evidence from Las Vegas and Gold Coast.

(2000). Places Shape Place Shapers? Real Estate Developers' Outlooks Concerning Community, Planning and Development Differ between Places. Planning Practice & Research: Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 353-374.

Places Shape Place Shapers? Real Estate Developers' Outlooks Concerning Community, Planning and Development Differ between Places

or transformed by new systems of production, notably by high technology manufacturing (see, for example, Castells, 1989), and by business and producer services (see for example, Sassen, 1991; Fainstein, et al, 1992). While of crucial importance, these new spatial forms do not seem to be the most dramatic representations of new urban and regional developments; at least in terms of population and labour force growth. In the United States, for example, centres based on consumption are now growing at the fastest rates. These are either residential

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