Abstract

Framed within the context of contemporary place making and the urban tourism destination, a novel trans-disciplinary approach to mapping and interpreting gentrification and cityscape change is presented. A combination of multi-scalar cartographic and visual techniques, including Google Street View (GSV) and geo-tagged images (Photo Sphere), is applied within the setting of Valletta, Malta, to convey cartographically the dynamism of urban transformations and detect tourism-led gentrification in a rapid way through the identification of the visual and aesthetic markers of gentrification. Utilising a critical approach, such map-making can inform and transform the understanding of the processes underpinning urban change and their cartographic and visual representation. It identifies and highlights issues of image and street-level ‘realities’ for both (re)imagining and marketing place. Individual tourists are able to access and utilise GSV and other mobile digital imaging and cartographic tools, as well as social media, to create their own, potentially counter, place-imaginaries and interpretations of urban change, thereby encouraging and/or discouraging visiting the city.

摘要

在当代场所营造和城市旅游目的地的背景下，提出了一种新颖的跨学科方法来绘制和解释高档化和城市景观变化。多标量制图和视觉技术的组合，包括谷歌街景 (GSV) 和地理标记图像 (Photo Sphere)，在马耳他瓦莱塔的环境中应用，以制图方式传达城市转型的活力并检测旅游业-通过识别高档化的视觉和美学标记，快速引导高档化。利用批判性方法，此类地图制作可以告知和转变对支撑城市变化及其制图和视觉表示的过程的理解。它为（重新）想象和营销场所确定并突出了形象和街头“现实”问题。个人游客能够访问和利用 GS​​V 和其他移动数字成像和制图工具以及社交媒体，以创建他们自己的、可能与城市变化相反的地方想象和解释，从而鼓励和/或阻止访问城市.