Coastal Architectures and Politics of Tourism: Leisurescapes in the Global Sunbelt PDF
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“This book is an outstanding collaboration with unforeseen innovations. On the one hand, it is a unique global history of the Cold-War that follows the path of the sun-belt from the Caribbean to Mediterranean, Black Sea and Indian Ocean. On the other hand, it demonstrates the architecture of tourism in all its complexity. Reading the essays together, we understand how building hotels and going on vacation could be a political act against austerity impositions or an infrastructure to lure investors; a rebellion against former colonizers or a settler colonial violence that dispossessed indigenous habitants; a force that globalized western bourgeois standards or an impetus for an identifable local aesthetic; a cultural tranquilizer or a declaration of the right to rest; a competition with oil industry or a policy to occupy countries with oil-dependent highway networks.” —Esra Akcan, Cornell University “Sun, sea and sand, the token features of leisurely holidays, represent much more than just the bounty of nature. The sunbelt came into being as a result of geo- political forces, architectural formations and socio-economic evolutions, which produced not only beach resorts but also political tensions, racial hierarchies and environmental degradation. Built on detailed case studies, this volume ofers a thorough analysis of the phenomenon.” —Hilde Heynen, University of Leuven “A highly innovative book that expands our understanding of the role played by modern architecture in shaping the contours of the post WWII geopolitical arena. This collection is a a must read for anyone interested in not only the global history of modernism, but also how its scale and materiality allowed for new ways of imagining and managing power, modes which are still very much in play in the emerging politics of global climate change and pandemics.” —Ijlal Muzafar, Rhode Island School of Design COASTAL ARCHITECTURES AND POLITICS OF TOURISM This volume offers a critical and complicated picture of how leisure tourism con- nected 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 geogra- phies 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, de- velopment, and progress, have often concealed histories of conflict, violence, social inequalities, and environmental degradation. It will be of interest to archi- tectural and urban historians, architects and planners, as well as urban geogra- phers, economic and environmental historians. Sibel Bozdoǧan 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 Modern- ization 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. COASTAL ARCHITECTURES AND POLITICS OF TOURISM Leisurescapes in the Global Sunbelt Edited by Sibel Bozdogˇan Panayiota Pyla Petros Phokaides Cover image: Golden Sands Hotel, circa 1973 © Press and Information Office (PIO), Republic of Cyprus, Collection Jack Iacovides. First published 2023 by Routledge 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158 and by Routledge 4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2023 selection and editorial matter, Sibel Bozdogˇan, Panayiota Pyla, Petros Phokaides; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Sibel Bozdogˇan, Panayiota Pyla, Petros Phokaides to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this title has been requested ISBN: 9781032147208 (hbk) ISBN: 9781032147192 (pbk) ISBN: 9781003240716 (ebk) DOI: 10.4324/9781003240716 Typeset in Bembo by codeMantra CONTENTS List of Contributors xi Preface xv Acknowledgments xvii Introduction xix Sibel Bozdogˇan, Panayiota Pyla, and Petros Phokaides PART I Colonial Legacies of Tourism 1 1 The Postcolonial Appropriation of Tourist Environments in Libya, 1943–1969 3 Brian L. McLaren 2 Decolonizing Leisurescapes: Sri Lanka’s Aesthetically Integrated Resort Designs 19 Anoma Pieris 3 The Anesthetics of Tourism: Bali, Internationalism, and Post-Conflict Developments 36 Jiat-Hwee Chang 4 Designing Terra nullius: Mid-Century Modernism and Settler-Colonial Leisure 52 Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió viii Contents PART II Collective Leisure and Market Ideologies 69 5 Emblems of Socialism: Romania’s Black Sea Resorts, 1950s-1960s 71 Juliana Maxim 6 Stretching Socialism: Company Holiday Homes in Estonian Coastal Villages 86 Epp Lankots 7 Por el Pueblo, Para el Pueblo: Tensions between Leisurescapes and Revolutionary Ideology in Castro’s Cuba 101 Erica Morawski 8 Leisure Between the First and Second Worlds: Hilton Tel- Aviv and Mivtachim Convalescent Home in Zichron Ya’akov 116 Alona Nitzan-Shiftan and Duffy Half PART III Territorial Planning and Transnational Expertise 131 9 Towers on a Golden Coast: Competing Visions of Development on Famagusta’s Beach 133 Panayiota Pyla and Dimitris Venizelos 10 Transnational Experts and the Architecture of Tourism Industry in Francoist Spain 151 José Vela Castillo and Sıla Karata¸s 11 Making the Border Irrelevant: An Israeli Hotel in the Sinai Peninsula 166 Neta Feniger 12 The African Riviera: Tourism, Infrastructure and Regional Development in the Ivory Coast 181 Ayala Levin PART IV Mobility and Infrastructure in the Mediterranean Littoral 197 13 Scales of Modernization: The Adriatic Highway as an Agent of Coastal Transformation 199 Melita Čavlović Contents ix 14 Mobility, Modernity, and Hospitality: TUSAN Tourism Initiative in Postwar Turkey 215 Gökçeçiçek Sava¸sır and Zeynep Tuna Ultav 15 ‘And They all Go to the Seashore!’ Roads, Seaside Leisure, and Camping in Postwar Greece 231 Stavros Alifragkis and Emilia Athanassiou 16 Plastic Leisure for All: The Hexacube and the Seaside Development of Leucate-Barcarès 248 Panagiotis Farantatos PART V Leisure Politics, Modernity, and Beach Culture 265 17 The Paradox of Baywatch: Questioning the Enduring Appeal of the “SoCal” Beachscape 267 Elsa Devienne 18 Concrete Shores: Illusions and Desires of Total Control on the Littoral Edge of Egypt 283 Manar Moursi 19 Architectural Visions of Modernity and Exclusion: Mid-Century Tourism Projects for Istanbul’s Florya Coast 298 Meltem Ö. Gürel 20 Black Sea Geopolitics and Architectures of Leisure: Turban Kilyos Holiday Complex 314 Emine Görgül 21 Walkerhill Resort: A Space of Exception in Postwar South Korea 329 Alex Young Il Seo Bibliography 345 Index 353
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