Topografía de la ciudad turística: un itinerario

The study of tourist cities from the magma of values and social relations makeit possible to link practices and concepts in order to explore the imaginary.Approaching the actual reality in global cities represents a challenge for theexisting theoretical methods. The article views the tourist city from theperspective of Kevin Lynch who contributed to the field of urban planningthrough empirical research on how individuals perceive and navigate theurban landscape and how to harness human perception of the physical form ofcities and regions as conceptual basis for good urban design. This articleelaborates further on the notions and procedures based in the imaginary, likeplace, itinerary, emblem and ornament