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(s): Sibel Bozdoǧan, Panayiota Pyla, Petros Phokaides
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 407
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I: Colonial Legacies of Tourism
1 The Postcolonial Appropriation of Tourist Environments in Libya, 1943–1969
2 Decolonizing Leisurescapes: Sri Lanka’s Aesthetically Integrated Resort Designs
3 The Anesthetics of Tourism: Bali, Internationalism, and Post-Conflict Developments
4 Designing Terra nullius: Mid-Century Modernism and Settler-Colonial Leisure
PART II: Collective Leisure and Market Ideologies
5 Emblems of Socialism: Romania’s Black Sea Resorts, 1950s-1960s
6 Stretching Socialism: Company Holiday Homes in Estonian Coastal Villages
7 Por el Pueblo, Para el Pueblo: Tensions between Leisurescapes and Revolutionary Ideology in Castro’s Cuba
8 Leisure Between the First and Second Worlds: Hilton Tel-Aviv and Mivtachim Convalescent Home in Zichron Ya’akov
PART III: Territorial Planning and Transnational Expertise
9 Towers on a Golden Coast: Competing Visions of Development on Famagusta’s Beach
10 Transnational Experts and the Architecture of Tourism Industry in Francoist Spain
11 Making the Border Irrelevant: An Israeli Hotel in the Sinai Peninsula
12 The African Riviera: Tourism, Infrastructure and Regional Development in the Ivory Coast
PART IV: Mobility and Infrastructure in the Mediterranean Littoral
13 Scales of Modernization: The Adriatic Highway as an Agent of Coastal Transformation
14 Mobility, Modernity, and Hospitality: TUSAN Tourism Initiative in Postwar Turkey
15 ‘And They all Go to the Seashore!’ Roads, Seaside Leisure, and Camping in Postwar Greece
16 Plastic Leisure for All: The Hexacube and the Seaside Development of Leucate-Barcarès
PART V: Leisure Politics, Modernity, and Beach Culture
17 The Paradox of Baywatch: Questioning the Enduring Appeal of the "SoCal" Beachscape
18 Concrete Shores: Illusions and Desires of Total Control on the Littoral Edge of Egypt
19 Architectural Visions of Modernity and Exclusion: Mid-Century Tourism Projects for Istanbul’s Florya Coast
20 Black Sea Geopolitics and Architectures of Leisure: Turban Kilyos Holiday Complex
21 Walkerhill Resort: A Space of Exception in Postwar South Korea
Bibliography
Index
