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The authors of this book use regulation theory to bring theoretical focus and analytic clarity to the study of urban tourism.

• Provides a unifying analytic framework for the study of urban tourism.
• Brings urban tourism into focus as an important political, economic and cultural phenomenon.
• Presents original essays written by established scholars, including studies of Venice, Mexico, Montreal, New York, Los Angeles, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, and Australia's Gold Coast.

Lily M. Hoffman is Associate Professor and Director of the Rosenberg/Humphrey Program in Public Policy at City College/CUNY.

Susan S. Fainstein is Professor of Urban Planning at Columbia University.

Dennis R. Judd is Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago.