New Edited Volume on Coastal Architectures and Politics of Tourism
Updated: Jan 25, 2024
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.
The way this volume connects post-war tourism to specific coastal building typologies makes me want to revisit our local beachfront zoning history. Tracing how earlier leisure infrastructures shaped current development patterns could be a practical starting point for heritage impact assessments.
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This is such an interesting angle on tourism—we usually think of beach holidays as purely escapist, but the way you frame "leisurescapes" as sites of hidden conflict really makes me rethink postwar development. The Soviet bloc seaside resorts alongside the Mediterranean cases is a particularly striking juxtaposition. Speaking of unexpected connections, this reminds me of how "the choicer voicer" breaks down visual tones in a similarly layered way—what seems simple on the surface has more complexity underneath. Definitely adding this volume to my reading list.
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