1. 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
Strangers
Marked spaces
Tourism space
Public/Private living space