How do tourism-focused main streets shape perceptions of rural communities? Our latest digest explores research by Matthew M. Mars on the disconnect between curated tourist imagery and everyday rural life in rural Arizona towns.
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Mars: The Inauthenticity of Western Boom Town Main Streets — The Rural Reconciliation Project
In “Forgotten are the Locals: Structures of Common Differences and the Inauthentic Curation of Western Boom Town Main Streetscapes, ” author Matthew M. Mars (Public and Applied Humanities, University...