15 Regions 299 Autumn 2015 Regional Survey regarding touristification. In Prague, the special historic morphology and the sudden transition to a market economy parallel to re-privatization led to a tourist space system where most visitors follow a few beaten tracks, causing congestion and out-crowding all local functions (see the picture above). The resulting segregation between locals and tourists diminished also the authentic urban experience of visitors. In the integrated semi-lattice tourist space system of Vienna, none of the problems described for Prague are relevant. Vienna’s ideal system can be attributed to a more rationally planned urban layout and a carefully planned and supervised tourism management integrated into urban planning. All public spaces showed a healthy balance between local and tourist space usage, the tourist space system distributed ideally visitors in the centre of a city. Tourism in Vienna today has more benefits than costs, resulting in one of the most liveable cities in the World. By analysing the planning processes from the past 25 years regarding the tourist space systems of Vienna, Prague and Budapest, it has become evident how only consistent urban planning could lead to a more integrated semi-lattice like pedestrian network, resulting in better tourist experiences and fewer confl icts between locals and tourists. References Dr. Bálint Kádár is an architect, urbanist, researcher and assistant lecturer at the Department of Urban Planning and Design of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary. He is cura- tor and president of the Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre and also runs his own architecture studio. kadarb@urb.bme.hu TOURISM AND FOOD MARKETS: A TYPOLOGY OF FOOD MARKETS FROM CASE STUDIES OF BARCELONA AND MADRID. Montserrat Crespi Vallbona, Universitat de Barcelona and Marta Domínguez Pérez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Food markets are considered to be a modern tourist resource, due to the boom in cultural and gastronomy tourism modality (Richards, 2007). These resources are located at the historic centre of the city. Therefore they are attractions for new different audiences, as tourists, apart from traditional ones, residents. They are exceptional spaces filled with history and culture of a territory, tastes and eating habits of the inhabitants of a destination. They are part of the rich heritage of a community. Many of them have an historical past and architectural beauty. Therefore, cities, and also markets have undergone important qualitative changes in their bid to adapt to new tastes and demands of visitors. They are rejuvenated, they have become a great resource. This happens in specific markets in Barcelona and Madrid. They have become the new tourist and identity exponent of these cities that project their attractive image to visitors. However, this new functionality of food markets impacts their traditional use by both its merchants and residents as well as its “users of urban spaces”. Therefore, as Thrane (2000) concluded, we agree Girardin, F., Fiore, F. D., Blat, J., Ratti, C. and Dal Fiore, F. (2008) “Understanding of Tourist Dynamics from Explicitly Disclosed Location Information”, Journal of Location Based Services, Vol. 2 No. 1. Gospodini, A. (2001) “Urban Design, Urban Space Morphology, Urban Tourism: An Emerging New Paradigm Concerning Their Relationship”, European Planning Studies, Vol. 9 No. 7, pp. 925–34. Kádár, B. (2013) “Differences in the spatial patterns of urban tourism in Vienna and Prague”, Urbani Izziv, Vol. 24 No. 2, pp. 96–111. Kádár, B. (2014) “Measuring tourist activities in cities using geotagged photography”, Tourism Geographies, 16 No. 1, pp. 88–104. Kádár, B. and Gede, M. (2013) “Where Do Tourists Go? Visualizing and Analysing the Spatial Distribution of Geotagged Photography”, Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization, Vol 48 No. 2, pp. 78–88. Mass tourism in Prague at Old Town Square, 2009