Coastal Architectures and Politics of Tourism Leisurescapes in the Global Sunbelt

Part I: Colonial Legacies of Tourism

1. The Postcolonial Appropriation of Tourist Environments in Libya, 1943-1969

2. Decolonizing Leisurescapes: Sri Lanka’s Aesthetically Integrated Resort Designs

3. The Anaesthetics of Tourism: Bali, Internationalism, and Post-Conflict Developments

4. Designing Terra nullius: Mid-Century Modernism and Settler-Colonial Leisure

5. Emblems of Socialism: Romania’s Black Sea Resorts, 1950s-60s

6. Stretching Socialism: Company Holiday Homes in Estonian Coastal Villages

7. Por el Pueblo, Para el Pueblo: Leisurescapes and Revolutionary Ideology in Castro’s Cuba

8. Leisure Between the First and Second Worlds: Hilton Tel-Aviv and Mivtachim Convalescent Home in Zichron Ya’akov

9. Towers on a Golden Coast: Competing Visions of Development on Famagusta’s Beach

10. Transnational Experts and the Architecture of Tourism Industry in Francoist Spain

José Vela Castillo and Sıla Karataş

11. Making the Border Irrelevant: An Israeli Hotel in the Sinai Peninsula

12. The African Riviera: Tourism, Infrastructure and Regional Development in the Ivory Coast

13. Scales of Modernization: The Adriatic Highway as an Agent of Coastal Transformation

14. Mobility, Modernity, and Hospitality: TUSAN Tourism Initiative in Postwar Turkey

15. ‘And They all Go to the Seashore!’ Roads, Seaside Leisure, and Camping in Postwar Greece

16. Plastic Leisure for All: The Hexacube and the Seaside Development of Leucate-Barcarès

17. The Paradox of Baywatch: Questioning the Enduring Appeal of the ‘SoCal’ Beachscape

18. Concrete Shores: Illusions and Desires of Total Control on the Littoral Edge of Egypt

19. Architectural Visions of Modernity and Exclusion: Mid-Century Tourism Projects for Istanbul’s Florya Coast

20. Black Sea Geopolitics and Architectures of Leisure: Turban Kilyos Holiday Complex

21. Walkerhill Resort: A Space of Exception in Postwar South Korea

Biography

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 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.

"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 identifiable 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, Author of Architecture in Translation; Turkey: Modern Architectures in History (with S. Bozdoğan); Open Architecture and Abolish Human Bans.

"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 geopolitical 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 offers a thorough analysis of the phenomenon."

Hilde Heynen, University of Leuven, Belgium

"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 Muzaffar, Associate Professor of Modern Architecture, Rhode Island School of Design