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I know it's hard to tell, but I really do
LOVE teaching this course. :-) I know the time is late at night,
mid-week, but I appreciate you sticking it out. I think you'll learn a
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Notes:
Site Sacralization, Site/Sight and
Model/Influence/Medium (MS PowerPoint)
Notes
Site Sacralization, Site/Sight and
Model/Influence/Medium (MS Word)
Gets you into MacCannell's mind. |
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Notes:
Boston's Fanieul Hall Marketplace
(MS PowerPoint)
Notes:
Boston's Fanieul Hall Marketplace
(MS Word)
The most successful urban renewal project in the US. Rouse pulled ideas
started in San Francisco at Ghirardelli Square, the first project in the
US to turn an old factory into a shopping/tourist area. |
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Notes:
History of Tourism
(MS PowerPoint)
Notes:
History of Tourism
(MS Word)
The Grand Tour, the Package Tour and lots of other information in a
quick-trip through tourism history. |
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Please read chapter three of the
MacCannell. Take notes on what you notice about work displays and
aspects related to historic tourism that we've talked about in other
articles. This chapter, for the most part, should make sense to you.
Make sure you actually read this, otherwise I'll be forced to give you a
pop-quiz. :-) |
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Site Sacralization: Pick a tourist site -
any site. On a sheet of paper write down the five stages of site
sacralization and see if you can then identify the five stages for the
site you picked. You do not have to turn this in, but it'll be good
practice for the test. :-) (Starts on pg. 43 of the text.) |
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I gave you a handout in class, Lies
Across America. I didn't actually assign this for next
Wednesday, but you'll have a couple of readings next Wednesday on top of
studying for the test, so if you have time this week, I'd read the Lies
Across America. It's short and fairly straight-forward. |
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Boston Questions, Part II. Answer these to turn in. |
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Do people actually travel for suicide?
The Bridge
The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the world's most photographed man-made
structures, one of the world's leading tourist attractions and it is by
far the world's top suicide destination. Is it an "attractive nuisance?"
Yes actually - at least in legal terms. You could call it a "deadly
beauty," or even compare it to the sirens of the Greek myths, singing so
beautifully that men are drawn to them only to be shredded to death by
the deadly sirens. It's gorgeous and dangerous. And if you've ever
walked across it, you know how the height and the deceptively inviting
calmness of the blue/green water below almost makes you want to dive!
Interestingly enough, the movie opened on the same day talks (re)began
for a possible suicide barrier on the structure. It's beauty is its
appeal - should safety overrule aesthetics? (Relatedly, the bridge has
no central divider between the lanes. When it was built, a divider
wasn't necessary. Now with the increased traffic flow and tourists
oggling views and crossing the center line, accidents on the bridge are
common. But no one wants to ruin the aesthetics of the structure to make
it safer.) Needless to say, the documentary (which includes interviews
with family members of suicide victims and witnesses) has been very
controversial. The splash people make off the bridge is called a halo,
and if you watch the trailer closely, near the end as the woman is
talking about the policeman saying it happens all the time, you'll see a
splash in the water. It's a little creepy, but intriguing also. (Not
required reading/viewing, but perhaps of interest.
If you're at all sensitive to this sort of
thing, again, know that the trailer is a little creepy.)
See the
trailer here.
GGB Quick Facts::
Tower height: 746 ft
Roadway deck height: 220 ft (above average height of water)
Length of center span: 4,200 ft (longest suspension span from 1937 to
1964)
Maximum transverse deflection: 27.7 ft (center of bridge during high
winds)
Maximum downward deflection: 10.8 ft
Engineer: Joseph Strauss
Opened: 1937
Crosses: the Golden Gate Strait connecting SF Bay and the Pacific Ocean
Connects: Marin County and SF County along US Hwy 101
Official Color: International Orange (invented for the bridge)
James Bond: A View to A Kill (fight scene at end of movie)
Alternate proposal: (1929) A dam to turn SF Bay into Lake SF, so a
roadway
could be built to connect Marin and SF Counties
Goofiest proposal: (1938) A giant roller coaster on the bridge as part
of the
Golden Gate International Exposition of 1919
Official Site |
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