%0 Journal Article %T “Urban labyrinths”: the identity of cities and the creation of their images as tourist attractions. The case of the backyards and lanes of Lublin, Wroclaw and Katowice %A Chylińska, Dagmara %A Kosmala, Gerard %J Czasopismo Techniczne %V 2014 %R 10.4467/2353737XCT.14.209.3297 %N Architektura Zeszyt 10 A (23) 2014 %P 19-46 %K backyards, lanes, identity of a city, image of a city, tourist attraction %@ 0011-4561 %D 2014 %U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/czasopismo-techniczne/artykul/urban-labyrinths-the-identity-of-cities-and-the-creation-of-their-images-as-tourist-attractions-the-case-of-the-backyards-and-lanes-of-lublin-wroclaw-and-katowice %X Tourists are tired of mass tourism and are therefore seeking places and experiences they could call genuine and different. In city tourism, focus is being increasingly shifted towards direct and authentic experience of urban space through spontaneous contact with the space itself and the inhabitants who create it. The authors, on the basis of three Polish cities being known as tourist destinations, analyzes the role of backyards and lanes in building up the identity of a city and the way their image as a tourist attraction is created.