Qualitative research/analysis:

To provide context: historical research-

Edinburgh City Archives.

Semi- Structured interviews with city

planners, relevant organizational

representatives and engagers with street

furniture

To describe the material culture of civic

hospitality, understand the significance of

location and milieu in creating urban

hospitality: analyzing plaques or other

commemorative notations and

photographing street furniture.

Private

houses

Private

hospitality

Guesthouse

Hotels

Commercial hospitality

Backrooms Unmarked

spaces

Adopted from Chavez

and Rest (2014)

Provide insights into how visitors and host

communities engage with material objects

of mundane urban hospitality.

Enhance understanding of public

hospitality in urban tourist destinations.

Advance comprehension of the

relationship between public-civic and

private-home hospitality.

Contribute to theoretical developments

regarding host/guest relationships within

the hospitable city.

Offer suggestions to city planners

concerned with enhancing and

understanding the tourist/visitor

experience.

A social history describing how

elements from the private domestic

sphere have colonised the public

sphere.

Examine/apply theories of

hospitality (social lens theory) and

notions of marked/unmarked spaces

(Brekhas 1998, Lynch et al 2011).

Draw theoretical/practical

conclusions on the use and

significance of street furniture in

relation to the development of the

hospitable city.

References:

1)-Brekhus, W. (1998). A sociology of the unmarked: Redirecting our focus. Sociological Theory, 16, 34–51.

2)-Lynch, P., Molz, J. G., Mcintosh, A., Lugosi, P., & Lashley, C. (2011). Theorizing hospitality. Hospitality & Society.

doi:10.1386/hosp.1.1.3_2

3)- Chavez, F van den B and Rest, J-P van der (2014), "The hospitalities of cities: Between the agora and the fortress", Hospitality and

Society, 4:1, pp31-53

4)- Miles, M. B and Huberman, A (1994) Qualitative data analysis: An Expanded Sourcebook", Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage

Michael Palkowski

Paul Lynch

Elaine Thomson

Fortress

Street Objects

StrangersMarked spaces

Tourism space

Public/Private living space