Plazas and Barrios: Heritage Tourism and Globalization in the Latin American Centro Histórico. JOSEPH L. SCARPACI, Arizona: University of Arizona Press, 2005.

Abstract

Anyone who has visited the historical plazas of Latin America during the tourism boom of the recent decade will find Joseph Scarpaci's Plazas and Barrios: Heritage Tourism and Globalization in the Latin American Centro Histórico a pleasant and informative book that will simultaneously bring back magical memories of those charming public squares and question the future of these cultural jewels in the face of the homogenizing power of market globalization.