Reading and interpreting the gateways in contemporary cities: an educational perspective.

This work aims at highlighting the teaching potentialities of urban geography, in particular the didactic value of analysis about the unprecedented functions of gateways in contemporary cities. So, after a reflection about the still fundamental pedagogical value of urban geography an its teaching tools, the paper provides a highly specific model of reading and interpreting the city trough the study of connections between tourist flows and consumption models in hhigly specific urban places, that is to say the traditional city gateways such as railway stations, ports and airports.