£130.00
Publication Date:
15 May 2004
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 14 - 19 May 2024
Description
The past two centuries have witnessed an increase in the commodification of tourist sites across the world. Everything from historical monuments to exotic holiday destinations has been redesigned and packaged for mass consumption. As a result, the histories of specific sites have been re-conceptualized. Some have been preserved and celebrated, while others have been left to decay. In this process, buildings, cities and entire countries have been remapped by tourism initiatives to serve political, cultural, economic and scholarly goals. Considering these profound transformations, Architecture and Tourism examines the reciprocal relationship between the modern practice of tourism and the built environment. It shows how photography, film and souvenirs have been deployed to help mediate and mythologize specific sites. It also explores how tourist itineraries, behavior and literature are institutionalized for popular consumption in order to support larger cultural objectives.
Drawing on case studies in Cuba, Ghana, Greece, France, Italy, Libya, Mauritius, Spain and the United States, Architecture and Tourism explores the touristic experience, representation and meaning of place within distinct cultural contexts. From the former sites of the slave trade on the Ghanaian coast to the urban renewal of Old Havana, from the honeymoon resorts in the Poconos to the postmodern spectacle of Bilbao, from the world's fairs of the 1930s to the colonialist encounters in Italian Libya, each chapter provides a provocative insight into the practice of tourism and the conception of place.
Contents
Foreword, Davydd J. Greenwood, Cornell University Defining a Canon and a Mode of Perception Reproduction, Fragmentation, and Collection: The Logics of Roman Souvenirs from Print to Plastic, Sarah Benson, History of Art and Archaeology, Cornell University Early Travelers in Greece and the Invention of Medieval Architectural History, Kostis Kourelis, Art History, Swarthmore College Performing Abroad: British Tourists to Italy and the Production of Identity, 1840-1914, Jill Steward, School of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Northumbria Politics of Pilgrimage From Tripoli to Ghadames: Architecture and the Tourist Experience of Local Culture in Italian Colonial Libya, Brian L. McLaren, Architecture, University of Washington A Pilgrimage to the Alczar of Toledo: Ritual, Tourism and Propaganda in Francos Spain, 1936-1940, Miriam Basilio, The Museum of Modern Art, New York City Authenticating Dungeons, Whitewashing Castles: Memory, Performance and Restoration at the Former Sites of Slave Trade in Ghana Cheryl Finley, Art, Wellesley College Packaging Place From Photographic Fragments to Architectural Illusions at the 1929 Poble Espanyol in Barcelona, Jordana Mendelson, School of Art and Design, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Similating France, Seducing the World: The Regional Center at the 1937 Paris Exposition, Deborah D. Hurtt, Architectural History, University of Virginia Tourist Geographies: Re-mapping Old Habana, D. Medina Lasansky, History of Architecture and Urbanism, Cornell University Performance and Popular Culture Sweetening Colonialism: A Mauritian Themed Resort, Tim Edensor, Cultural Studies, Staffordshire University and Uma Kothari, Insitute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester Doing it Right: Post-war Honeymoon Resorts in the Pocono Mountains, Barbara Penner, Architectural History and Theory, The Bartlett, University College London The Post-Modern Imagination "New Politics of the Spectacle: Bilbao and the Global Imagination," Joan Ockman, Architecture, Columbia University Egypt on Steroids: Luxor Las Vegas and Postmodern Orientalism, Jeffrey Cass, Language and Literature, Texas A M International University
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