Tourism and Planning in Chicago. The experience in Davan Avenue

This paper concerns Devon Avenue in Chicago. Eight miles north of downtown, this area is inhabited by a large Jewish population with the majority of business owners coming from Pakistan and India. In order to make this neighborhood more attractive for outsiders and the upper-middle class, Indo-Pakistan community leaders have attempted to define a strategic plan The main aim of this paper is to discuss about spatial planning and tourism and to underline some aspects of this processes by means of a case study. The methodology, adopted to collect this information, is both qualitative (observations and 10 recorded interviews) and quantitative (statistical data collection)