Sentence:  There are a number of studies of the tourist consumption of cities as <WSD>eventscapes</WSD> that illustrate how a European matrix of perfect “citiness” has influenced not only travelers, but city planners, brand-makers, and local politicians, who learned to see their city through the tourist mode of consumption (see Willim 2005; Marling and Zerlang 2007). 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A location viewed as the venue for a public event.