Coastal Architectures and Politics of Tourism: Leisurescapes in the Global Sunbelt

By: Sibel Bozdoǧan

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 364 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781000623123
Related ISBNs:: 9781003240716, 9781032147192, 9781032147208, 9781000623093
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:: 04/15/24
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Sibel Bozdoǧan, Panayiota Pyla, Petros Phokaides
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Sports, Travel, Art and Architecture, Home and Garden, Outdoors and Nature, Politics and Government, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Sibel Bozdoğan
Edited by:: Panayiota Pyla
Edited by:: Petros Phokaides