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

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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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9781003240716, 9781032147208, 9781000623093

Coastal Architectures and Politics of Tourism: Leisurescapes in the Global Sunbelt 1st Edition is written by Sibel Bozdoǧan and published by Routledge. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Coastal Architectures and Politics of Tourism are 9781000623123, 1000623122 and the print ISBNs are 9781032147192, 1032147199. Additional ISBNs for this eTextbook include 9781003240716, 9781032147208, 9781000623093.