Lily M. Hoffman has written about tourism-based development in the US and post-communist society and co-edited (with Susan S. Fainstein and Dennis R. Judd) Cities and Visitors : Regulating People, Markets and City Space (Boston : Blackwell, 2003). She teaches urban sociology at CCNY (City College of New York) and CUNY Graduate Center, both part of the City University of New York (CUNY).