Towards a new urban development. Ethnoburbs and new economy.

Responding to the observable rise of tourism and leisure development in previously neglected ethnoburbs,this study sought to provide a comprehensive account of the causes,characteristics and consequences of previously neglected suburban areas' selection and redefinition as new destinations for leisure and tourism. Grounded in a discussion of the forces reconfiguring urban development as well as tourism in the advanced capitalist world and new financial-technological globalization,it examines how,by whom,and with what effects some ethnoburbs are re-imagined,re-constructed,and re-experienced as places to visit and explore; unburies the frequently omitted historicity of slumming and other niche tourism practises impacting so called marginalized suburbs;elaborates upon the potential of tourism for socially equitable forms of suburban development and explores how the old face of tourism is being challenged by the increasingly complex and diverse realities of contemporary travel and leisure. Rather,the increasing pervasiveness of mobility and tourism as well as its increased dedifferentiation,i.e. the blurred boundaries between tourism and nontourism activities,also transforms meaning of place and space: an examination of place marketing and associated activities to incorporate marginalized suburbs or ethnoburbs into cities' postindustrial economies and development cycles.