Considerations on the transit of Valencia to the global city. Cities

Rausell-Köster, Pau

Consideraciones sobre el tránsito de Valencia hacia la ciudad global. Ciudades.

The Social Sciences have been announcing for some decades now a new paradigm that articulates social and economic relations in a different way from that of conventional capitalism. Numerous literature, from Touraine and Bell or Toffler in the 1960s and 1970s to the most recent contributions of Castels, or Rifkin noted, among many other issues, the growing importance of "symbolistic dimension" as an attribute of property, territories or human groups themselves. What is relevant in this new environment is not the physical or functional characteristics of things/spaces/persons, but their meanings.

Pp. 71

Productivity Analysis in the Spanish Cultural and Leisure Industry: A Regional Perspective.

Marco-Serrano, Francisco Rausell-Köster, Pau

The Culture and Leisure Industries represent an increasing share of the Spanish GDP. In this way, considering the different factors of the competitivity, the productivity of these industries is analysed for the mid-nineties to a regional level. The results at which we arrived allow us to glimpse growth potentialities derived from technical progress and improvements in the scale economies. Another one of the facts this work confi rms is the sectorial supremacy of the Community of Madrid, followed closely by Catalonia, Aragon and Galicia.

Vol. 24-2, Pp: 699-722

The time of culture. Economic and social report of the Balearic Islands 2004

Rausell-Köster, Pau

El temps de la cultura. Informe econòmic i social de les illes balears 2004.

The social prospective surrounding the phenomenon of culture repeats with sufficient recurrence the account that we inevitably drift towards the space of trivialisation of symbolic messages, that is, towards the decline of culture. For the most, the detriment of profound meaning, massification, the reduction of cultural diversity as a result of globalisation, the failures of education systems in transmitting essential events in our histories and literatures, the media misrepresentation of cultural events, the invasion of tourist hordes into cultural locations and even the emergence of the Internet, are seen as irrefutable proof of a decline that brings us to poorer, smaller social...

The social prospective surrounding the phenomenon of culture repeats with sufficient recurrence the account that we inevitably drift towards the space of trivialisation of symbolic messages, that is, towards the decline of culture. For the most, the detriment of profound meaning, massification, the reduction of cultural diversity as a result of globalisation, the failures of education systems in transmitting essential events in our histories and literatures, the media misrepresentation of cultural events, the invasion of tourist hordes into cultural locations and even the emergence of the Internet, are seen as irrefutable proof of a decline that brings us to poorer, smaller social environments that limit the human condition subjected to the bombardment of television and to advertising messages that only activate and reinforce our status as consumers.

Pp. 532-538

The cultural practices and uses of foreign immigrants in Gandia

Rausell-Köster, Pau

Las prácticas y los usos culturales de los inmigrantes extranjeros en Gandía .

As it appears in other parts of this work, the phenomenon of recent immigration is a composite, multidimensional and difficult to deal with in all its complexity. Social analysis must therefore be based on schematisation procedures which may in some cases lead to excessively simplified extremes. This is the risk of trying to analyse the behaviours and attitudes of a whole range of citizens who, because of their cultural background, are absolutely diverse and influenced by completely different factors and circumstances.

Pp. 200-220

Training, labour market and professional profiles

Rausell Köster, Pau Cabañés Martínez, Francesc Revert Roldán, Ximo

PH 54 (2005). Especial Monográfico: Patrimonio y empleo.

The authors first analyse the professional profile of cultural heritage managers, considering that, given the characteristics of heritage management activity in Spain and the current discussions on the university insertion of cultural management, this is a paradigmatic case of the difficulties involved in defining the training offer, the labour market and the professional profiles linked to the cultural sector in our country. Secondly, and following the model of the three categories provided by X. Greffe, the authors attempt to approach the three categories of the cultural sector. Greffe, they try to approach the structure and percentage composition of the labour market linked to heritage...

The authors first analyse the professional profile of cultural heritage managers, considering that, given the characteristics of heritage management activity in Spain and the current discussions on the university insertion of cultural management, this is a paradigmatic case of the difficulties involved in defining the training offer, the labour market and the professional profiles linked to the cultural sector in our country. Secondly, and following the model of the three categories provided by X. Greffe, the authors attempt to approach the three categories of the cultural sector. Greffe, they try to approach the structure and percentage composition of the labour market linked to heritage in Spain. The main difficulty in this task lies in the virtual absence of reliable data and research. They then point out some possibilities for growth in employment, closely related to public policies and cultural tourism. Finally, they review the characteristics of the training offer in the field of heritage management.

No. 54, pp. 48-54

An approach to urban tourism. The value of the city packaged in the case of Valencia..

Rausell-Köster, Pau Marco Serrano, Francisco

This paper tries to develop a new concept useful to analyse the phenomenon of urban tourism: the packaged city; a) as a synthetic catalogue of the tourist offer of the cities, b) as a prescriptive element of the demand and c) as a configurator of the image of the city. This concept tries to link the connections between the strategies of residents, planners and private agents, planners and private agents. It also analyses the emerging phenomenon of urban tourism, as well as proposing a quantitative approach to the concept of the "packaged city" through the method of contingent valuation applied to Valencia. To this end, it proposes an analysis of the recent configuration of the city of...

This paper tries to develop a new concept useful to analyse the phenomenon of urban tourism: the packaged city; a) as a synthetic catalogue of the tourist offer of the cities, b) as a prescriptive element of the demand and c) as a configurator of the image of the city. This concept tries to link the connections between the strategies of residents, planners and private agents, planners and private agents. It also analyses the emerging phenomenon of urban tourism, as well as proposing a quantitative approach to the concept of the "packaged city" through the method of contingent valuation applied to Valencia. To this end, it proposes an analysis of the recent configuration of the city of Valencia as an urban destination.

No 2. Pp: 9-34

Reahabilitación, patrimono y participación.

Sanchez, E. Rausell, P. (Editors)

Diversos textos de diversos autores sobre los interrogantes que plantej la rehabilitación del patrimonio

Tourism, Culture and Urban Competitiveness: The Case of the City of Valencia.

Carrasco Arroyo, Salvador Rausell-Köster, Pau

Public actions in the field of urban development involve redefining the strategies of sectors as important as culture and tourism; however, these changes in public policies have economic and social consequences for the city. This paper shows the policy carried out in the city of Valencia and how a strategy of modernisation of the city has modified the cultural references, generating competitiveness among the urban tourist offer.

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Annotations and tools for analysing local cultural reality

Rausell-Köster, Pau Martínez-Tormo, José

Anotacions i eines per a l'anàlisi de la realitat cultural local.

El marc local s'ha convertit en l'escenari més rellevant per a la implementació de la política cultural. En primer lloc cal tindre constància que l'àmbit municipal és realment l'espai significativament pròxim a les necessitats i demanda dels ciutadans, per la qual cosa resulta l'espai idoni de presa de decisions col·lectives per a resoldre aquestes demandes. De fet, la construcció de les polítiques culturals a l'Espanya contemporània s'estructura a partir del “gran esforç de l'administració local, generadora del gruix de la despesa cultural de les administracions públiques”, que “té els seus orígens en els governs locals nascuts de les primeres eleccions municipals democràtiques en 1979,...

El marc local s'ha convertit en l'escenari més rellevant per a la implementació de la política cultural. En primer lloc cal tindre constància que l'àmbit municipal és realment l'espai significativament pròxim a les necessitats i demanda dels ciutadans, per la qual cosa resulta l'espai idoni de presa de decisions col·lectives per a resoldre aquestes demandes. De fet, la construcció de les polítiques culturals a l'Espanya contemporània s'estructura a partir del “gran esforç de l'administració local, generadora del gruix de la despesa cultural de les administracions públiques”, que “té els seus orígens en els governs locals nascuts de les primeres eleccions municipals democràtiques en 1979, que van apostar per la cultura i la recuperació del carrer com a espai festiu col·lectiu”.

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