Urban design, urban space morphology, urbantourism: An emerging new paradigm concerning their relationship

摘要

The paper concerns the relationships between the physical form of the urban environment and leisure activities. It examines how urban space morphology—i.e. spatial patterns and formal patterns—may have an impact on tourists’ attraction and preferences in the contemporary cultural context of urban tourism. Can urban design and the physical form of space in themselves determine anything in urban tourism development?