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Leisurescapes in the Global Sunbelt
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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.

Author Biography:

Sibel Bozdoǧan is a visiting professor at Boston University, previously taught at MIT and GSD, Harvard University. She is the author of Modernism and Nation-Building: Turkish Architectural Culture in the Early Republic (2001, recipient of the SAH Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award) and co-author, with Esra Akcan, of Turkey: Modern Architectures in History (2012). Panayiota Pyla has a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a professor of architecture at the University of Cyprus, having previously served on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Among her works is the edited volume Landscapes of Development: The Impact of Modernization Discourses on the Physical Environment of the Eastern Mediterranean (2013). Petros Phokaides is an assistant professor at the University of Thessaly, Greece. His research focuses on architecture, infrastructures, and broader landscape transformations across multiple spatial scales to understand postcolonial visions, geopolitics, and socio-environmental change in the global South. He currently serves on the editorial board of Architectural Histories.
Release date Australia
July 29th, 2022
Contributors
  • Edited by Panayiota Pyla
  • Edited by Petros Phokaides
  • Edited by Sibel Bozdogan
Pages
364
Audiences
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations
157 Halftones, black and white; 157 Illustrations, black and white
ISBN-13
9781032147192
Product ID
35654670

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