The Infrastructure of Play

1: Building the Tourist City: Editor's Introduction; I: An Era of City-Building; 2: Urban Tourism and the Privatizing Discourses of Public Infrastructure; 3: Tourism and Entertainment as Local Economic Development: A National Survey; II: Building a Tourist Space; 4: Building the Infrastructure of Urban Tourism: The Case of St. Louis; 5: Indianapolis, a Sports Strategy, and the Redefinition of Downtown Redevelopment; 6: If We Build It, They Will Come! Tourism-Based Economic Development in Baltimore; 7: From Waterhole to World City: Place-Luck and Public Agendas in Denver; 8: Tourism and Strategic Competitiveness: Infrastructure Development in Mexico City; III: Restructuring the Urban Environment; 9: The Political Economy of Tourism Development in the San Diego-Tijuana Trans-Frontier Metropolis; 10: Tourism Infrastructure and Urban Redevelopment in Montreal; 11: Tourism Infrastructure of a Postindustrial City: A Case Study of Vancouver, British Columbia; 12: The Infrastructure of Urban Tourism: A European Model? A Comparative Analysis of Mega-Projects in Four Eurocities