Une troisième (et dernière) révolution ? Ou le tourisme comme rapport unique à l’urbain et au monde

Continuing work on the links between tourism and spatiality, this text supports the thesis that we have entered a new era beyond the “recreational turn”. Now there would no longer be mere interdependent relations and tensions between urbanisation and tourism: man would inhabit the world as a tourist. Any urban space would be designed by and for tourism; any act of urban and/or architectural planning would aim to produce the conditions for a relationship with the world based on entertainment. To defend this thesis, a double study of the Voyage à Nantes and Confluences-Lyon, as emblematic illustrations of this new era, and of literature on contemporary spatialities, where urbanity, tourism, urban production and inhabiting are entangled, will be mobilised.