Meaning of eventscape | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A set of locations (with associated actions and events) that jointly provide the setting for and represent a culturally important narrative.
2. A location viewed as the venue for a public event.

Examples

“For many American Indians there are six nested levels including, from broadest to narrowest spatial scale: eventscapes, Holy Lands, songscapes, regional landscapes, ecoscapes, and landmarks.”

“The internment of eventscape is instrumental in incorporating new generations of Japanese Americans into the internment story.”

“Whether this wreck site represents the remains of Groningen or not is still unknown, and perhaps will never be known, but it illustrates an event in the dramatic historical eventscape of coastal Elmina.”

“By the 1950s, the eventscapes of Vancouver's Chinatown were indeed becoming mainstream attractions.”

“Using outdoor spaces for events generates media coverage of identifiable cityscapes and it dramatises them, creating eventscapes.”

“There are a number of studies of the tourist consumption of cities as eventscapes that illustrate how a European matrix of perfect “citiness” has influenced not only travelers, but city planners, brand-makers, and local politicians, who learned to see their city through the tourist mode of consumption (see Willim 2005; Marling and Zerlang 2007).”

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