Qualitative research/analysis:
To provide context: historical research-
Edinburgh City Archives.
Semi- Structured interviews with city
planners, relevant organizational
representatives and engagers with street
furniture
To describe the material culture of civic
hospitality, understand the significance of
location and milieu in creating urban
hospitality: analyzing plaques or other
commemorative notations and
photographing street furniture.
Private
houses
Private
hospitality
Guesthouse
Hotels
Commercial hospitality
Backrooms Unmarked
spaces
Adopted from Chavez
and Rest (2014)
Provide insights into how visitors and host
communities engage with material objects
of mundane urban hospitality.
Enhance understanding of public
hospitality in urban tourist destinations.
Advance comprehension of the
relationship between public-civic and
private-home hospitality.
Contribute to theoretical developments
regarding host/guest relationships within
the hospitable city.
Offer suggestions to city planners
concerned with enhancing and
understanding the tourist/visitor
experience.
A social history describing how
elements from the private domestic
sphere have colonised the public
sphere.
Examine/apply theories of
hospitality (social lens theory) and
notions of marked/unmarked spaces
(Brekhas 1998, Lynch et al 2011).
Draw theoretical/practical
conclusions on the use and
significance of street furniture in
relation to the development of the
hospitable city.
References:
1)-Brekhus, W. (1998). A sociology of the unmarked: Redirecting our focus. Sociological Theory, 16, 34–51.
2)-Lynch, P., Molz, J. G., Mcintosh, A., Lugosi, P., & Lashley, C. (2011). Theorizing hospitality. Hospitality & Society.
doi:10.1386/hosp.1.1.3_2
3)- Chavez, F van den B and Rest, J-P van der (2014), "The hospitalities of cities: Between the agora and the fortress", Hospitality and
Society, 4:1, pp31-53
4)- Miles, M. B and Huberman, A (1994) Qualitative data analysis: An Expanded Sourcebook", Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
Michael Palkowski
Paul Lynch
Elaine Thomson
Fortress
Street Objects
StrangersMarked spaces
Tourism space
Public/Private living space
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