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| Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Architecture and tourism. New York : Berg, 2004 (OCoLC)761372585 |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
D Medina Lasansky; Brian D McLaren |
| ISBN: | 1859737048 9781859737040 1859737099 9781859737095 |
| OCLC Number: | 123339641 |
| Description: | xx, 275 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Reproduction, fragmentation, and collection: Rome and the Origin of souvenirs / Sarah Benson -- Early travelers in Greece and the invention of medieval architectural history / Kostis Kourelis -- Performing abroad: British tourists in Italy and their practices 1840-1914 / Jill Steward -- From Tripoli to Ghadames: architecture and the tourist experience of local culture in Italian colonial Libya / Brian McLaren -- A pilgrimage to the Alcázar of Toledo: ritual, tourism and propaganda in Franco's Spain / Miriam Basilio -- Authenticating dungeons, whitewashing castles: the former sites of the slave trade on the Ghanaian coast / Cheryl Finley -- From photographic fragments to architectural illusions at the 1929 Poble Espanyol in Barcelona / Jordana Mendelson -- Simulating France, seducing the world: the regional center at the Paris exposition / Deborah D. Hurtt -- Tourist geographies: remapping old Habana / D. Medina Lasansky -- Sweetening colonialism: a Mauritian themed resort / Tim Edensor and Uma Kothan -- Doing it right: postwar honeymoon resorts in the Pocono Mountains / Barbara Penner -- New politics of the spectacle: "Bilbao" and the global imagination / Joan Ockman -- Egypt on steroids: Luxor Las Vegas and postmodern orientalism / Jeffrey Cass. |
| Responsibility: | edited by D. Medina Lasansky and Brian McLaren. |
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Spectacle, pilgrimage, history, myth, vision of the future - all these realms come together in Architecture and Tourism, as they do in our personal travels and in national policies around the world. over the past three hundred years, tourism has become an essential element of western architecture.Gwendolyn Wright, Professor of Architecture, Columbia University Lasanky and McLaren's comprehensive collection explores the historical dimensions of tourism, showing how it has always been intimately connected with matters of architecture, urbanism and space. At once insightful and informative, Architecture and Tourism is an important contribution to our understanding of this pervasive global phenomenon.Iain Borden, Professor of Architecture and Urban Culture, UCLA provocative series of essays about the interrelations between the designed environment and tourist practices. With a rich and diverse range of examples, the contributors place an insightful emphasis on the agency of both ar Read more...
