Coastal Architectures and Politics of Tourism Leisurescapes in the Global Sunbelt

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.

Part I: Colonial Legacies of Tourism 1. The Postcolonial Appropriation of Tourist Environments in Libya, 1943-1969 Brian L. McLaren 2. Decolonizing Leisurescapes: Sri Lanka’s Aesthetically Integrated Resort Designs Anoma Pieris 3. The Anaesthetics of Tourism: Bali, Internationalism, and Post-Conflict Developments Jiat-Hwee Chang 4. Designing Terra nullius: Mid-Century Modernism and Settler-Colonial Leisure Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió Part II: Collective Leisure and Market Ideologies 5. Emblems of Socialism: Romania’s Black Sea Resorts, 1950s-60s Juliana Maxim 6. Stretching Socialism: Company Holiday Homes in Estonian Coastal Villages Epp Lankots 7. Por el Pueblo, Para el Pueblo: Leisurescapes and Revolutionary Ideology in Castro’s Cuba Erica Morawski 8. Leisure Between the First and Second Worlds: Hilton Tel-Aviv and Mivtachim Convalescent Home in Zichron Ya’akov Alona Nitzan-Shiftan and Duffy Half Part III: Territorial Planning and Transnational Expertise 9. Towers on a Golden Coast: Competing Visions of Development on Famagusta’s Beach Panayiota Pyla and Dimitris Venizelos 10. Transnational Experts and the Architecture of Tourism Industry in Francoist Spain José Vela Castillo and Sila Karatas 11. Making the Border Irrelevant: An Israeli Hotel in the Sinai Peninsula Neta Feniger 12. The African Riviera: Tourism, Infrastructure and Regional Development in the Ivory Coast Ayala Levin Part IV: Mobility and Infrastructure in the Mediterranean Littoral 13. Scales of Modernization: The Adriatic Highway as an Agent of Coastal Transformation Melita Cavlovic 14. Mobility, Modernity, and Hospitality: TUSAN Tourism Initiative in Postwar Turkey Gökçeçiçek Savasir and Zeynep Tuna Ultav 15. ‘And They all Go to the Seashore!’ Roads, Seaside Leisure, and Camping in Postwar Greece Stavros Alifragkis and Emilia Athanassiou 16. Plastic Leisure for All: The Hexacube and the Seaside Development of Leucate-Barcarès Panagiotis Farantatos Part V: Leisure Politics, Modernity and Beach Culture 17. The Paradox of Baywatch: Questioning the Enduring Appeal of the ‘SoCal’ Beachscape Elsa Devienne 18. Concrete Shores: Illusions and Desires of Total Control on the Littoral Edge of Egypt Manar Moursi 19. Architectural Visions of Modernity and Exclusion: Mid-Century Tourism Projects for Istanbul’s Florya Coast Meltem Ö. Gürel 20. Black Sea Geopolitics and Architectures of Leisure: Turban Kilyos Holiday Complex Emine Görgül 21. Walkerhill Resort: A Space of Exception in Postwar South Korea Alex Young Il Seo

Sibel Bozdogan is a visiting professor at Boston University, previously taught at MIT and GSD, Harvard University. She is the author of Modernism and Nation-Building: Turkish Architectural Culture in the Early Republic (2001, recipient of the SAH Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award) and co-author, with Esra Akcan, of Turkey: Modern Architectures in History (2012). Panayiota Pyla has a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a professor of architecture at the University of Cyprus, having previously served on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Among her works is the edited volume Landscapes of Development:The Impact of Modernization Discourses on the Physical Environment of the Eastern Mediterranean(2013). Petros Phokaides is an assistant professor at the University of Thessaly, Greece. His research focuses on architecture, infrastructures, and broader landscape transformations across multiple spatial scales to understand postcolonial visions, geopolitics, and socio-environmental change in the global South. He currently serves on the editorial board of Architectural Histories.