Contrived Landscapes: Simulated Environments as an Emerging Medium of Tourism Destinations

Forrester, Scott; Singh, Shalini

doi:10.1080/02508281.2005.11081488

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“…Within cities, it is likely that only a select group will have the incomes required to access some high-end leisure facilities, and even Singapore's Gardens by the Bay and Berlin's Tropical Islands are not accessible to all. In producing this kind of new techno-nature, artificial environments escape the realm of the commons and are not configured by collective needs or desires but are totally at the disposal of their owners (Forrester and Singh, 2005). On a global scale, it is not anodyne that vertical farming is being done in US cities, London, Japan and Singapore, and that ecological conservation both in large-scale greenhouses and ecodomes and in enclosed leisure spaces is also more often to be found in the North.…”

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“…Thus, the most obvious urban characteristic of controlled environments is the increasingly vast array of such enclosed managed sites and spaces in cities both in absolute number and in diversity of function that we see in Table 2 – all kinds of leisure spaces, residential conservatories and greenhouses, enclosed public spaces, hotel atria, etc. This is partly about accessibility as ‘nature’ is configured and brought closer to urban citizen consumers in the form of distinctive artificial spaces (see, for example, Forrester and Singh, 2005, on simulated metropolitan tourism environments). It also means that ‘the controlled environment’ is becoming a major type of land use in urban areas, requiring infrastructural underpinning and maintenance.…”

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Controlled environments: An urban research agenda on microclimatic enclosure

Marvin

Rutherford

2018

Urban Studies

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Controlled environments create specialist forms of microclimatic enclosure that are explicitly designed to transcend the emerging limitations and increasing turbulence in existing modes of urban climatic conditions. Across different urban contexts, anthropogenic change is creating urban conditions that are too hot, cold, humid, wet, windy, etc. to support the continued and reliable environments that are suitable for the reproduction of food, ecologies and human life. In response, there are emerging forms of experimentation with new logics of microclimatic governance that seek to enclose environments within membranes and develop artificially created internal ecologies that are precisely customised to meet the needs of the plant, animal or human occupants of these new forms of enclosure. While recognising that enclosure has a long history in urbanism, design and architecture, we ask if a new logic of microclimatic governance is emerging in specific response to the ecological changes of the Anthropocene. The paper sets out a research agenda to investigate whether the ability of cities, states and corporates to design and construct internalised environments is now a strategic capacity that is critical to developing the knowledge, practices and technologies to reconfigure new forms of urban climatic governance that address the problems of climate change and ensure urban reproduction under conditions of turbulence.

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Section: An Urban Research Agenda On Microclimatic Enclosurementioning

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Controlled environments: An urban research agenda on microclimatic enclosure

Marvin

Rutherford

2018

Urban Studies

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“…These “experience landscapes” (Gibbs & Holloway, 2018) are not a replication of an existing nature but a creation of an artificial nature that does not actually exist anywhere else (Marvin & Rutherford, 2018). Furthermore, it has been proposed that it is increasingly difficult to distinguish in leisure environments “between where the natural ends and the simulated begins” (Forrester & Singh, 2005, p. 75), pointing to the hybridity of such configurations.…”

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Understanding the socio‐technical hybridisation of indoor–outdoor relations: Emergent, merged, and stretched

Marvin

Rutherford

2021

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Indoor and outdoor leisure environments are increasingly understood to be mutually constituted through merged relationships but there has been less focus on the actual forms that hybridisation can take. This paper provides an analysis of forms of hybridisation through time by focusing on the socio‐technical configurations through which three leisure environments are materially constituted. We analyse the key functional elements of these configurations: the technological systems and their genealogies over time that allow the making and unmaking of activities; the spatiality of facilities and systems in terms of their locations and connections across space; and the construction by providers of user pathways between indoor and outdoor activities. The paper uses this structure to compare purpose‐built indoor recreational spaces located in the city region of Greater Manchester that recreate outdoor activities focusing on skydiving, skiing, and ice wall climbing. We construct a framework of three modes of hybridisation – emergent, merged, stretched – that contributes a deeper understanding of the diversity, intensity, and changing temporality of interrelations between indoor and outdoor environments.

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Zoo Tourism: Biodiversity Conservation Through Tourism

Catibog-Sinha

2008

Journal of Ecotourism

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Contrived Landscapes: Simulated Environments as an Emerging Medium of Tourism Destinations

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Controlled environments: An urban research agenda on microclimatic enclosure

Controlled environments: An urban research agenda on microclimatic enclosure

Understanding the socio‐technical hybridisation of indoor–outdoor relations: Emergent, merged, and stretched

Zoo Tourism: Biodiversity Conservation Through Tourism

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