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Coastal Architectures and Politics of Tourism - Leisurescapes in the Global Sunbelt (Paperback)
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Coastal Architectures and Politics of Tourism - Leisurescapes in the Global Sunbelt (Paperback)
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This volume offers a critical and complicated picture of how
leisure tourism connected the world after the World War II,
transforming coastal lands, traditional societies, and national
economies in new ways. The 21 chapters in this book analyze
selected case studies of architectures and landscapes around the
world, contextualizing them within economic geographies of national
development, the geopolitics of the Cold War, the legacies of
colonialism, and the international dynamics of decolonization.
Postwar leisure tourism evokes a rich array of architectural spaces
and altered coastal landscapes, which is explored in this
collection through discussions of tourism developments in the
Mediterranean littoral, such as Greece, Turkey, and southern
France, as well as compelling analyses of Soviet bloc seaside
resorts along the Black Sea and Baltic coasts, and in beachscapes
and tourism architectures of western and eastern hemispheres, from
Southern California to Sri Lanka, South Korea, and Egypt. This
collection makes a compelling argument that "leisurescapes," far
from being supra-ideological and apolitical spatial expressions of
modernization, development, and progress, have often concealed
histories of conflict, violence, social inequalities, and
environmental degradation. It will be of interest to architectural
and urban historians, architects and planners, as well as urban
geographers, economic and environmental historians.
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