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The Seafront (Hardcover)
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The Seafront (Hardcover)
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This book is devoted to the seafront, the space between the seaward
ends of seaside piers and the first line of buildings. The seafront
is a place that is familiar yet unfamiliar, predictable but
exciting, natural but artificial. It is a place to live, work and
play, a site for commemoration and remembrance. It is
ever-changing, depending on the time of day, the state of the tides
and the month of the year. And how we perceive it will be shaped by
our age, our gender and our childhood memories. The Seafront
describes a highly complex space that has been created, recreated
and adapted over the past 300 years. It tells the story of seaside
holidays and how the arrival of increasing numbers of tourists
transformed natural coastline into the man-made environments of
modern resorts. Themes examined range from the engineering of sea
defences, to the provision of tourism infrastructure and from
facilities for sea bathing to the fun factories and fun fairs of
the 20th century. The many and diverse aspects of its history,
geography, character, function and meaning will be explored and
while this study will inevitably focus on the tangible, both
natural and man-made, it will also seek to capture something of the
spiritual and cultural character of the seafront, is activities,
people and memories.
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