Coastal Architectures and Politics of Tourism

Name: Coastal Architectures and Politics of Tourism
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Coastal Architectures and Politics of TourismLeisurescapes in the Global Sunbelt\nAuthor(s): Sibel Bozdo?an, Panayiota Pyla, Petros Phokaides\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032147192, 978-1032147192\nSynopsis\nThis 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.\n\nThe 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 litto.