Architecture and Tourism: Perception, Performance and Place [Paperback]

D. Medina Lasansky (Editor), Brian McLaren (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 4, 2004 | ISBN-10: 1859737099 | ISBN-13: 978-1859737095 | Edition: First Edition

Architecture and Tourism examines the relationship between tourism and the built environment and 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 support larger cultural objectives. Drawing upon case studies in the United States, Cuba, Ghana, Greece, France, Italy, Libya, Mauritius and Spain, 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 Ghanean coast to the urban renewal of Old Havana and the honeymoon resorts in the Poconos, this book provides provocative insights into the practice of tourism and the conception of place.

Editorial Reviews

Review

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 architec

About the Author

D. Medina Lasansky is Assistant Professor, History of Architecture and Urbanism, Architecture Department, Cornell University. Brian McLaren is Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, University of Washington.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Berg Publishers; First Edition edition (September 4, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1859737099
• ISBN-13: 978-1859737095
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,397,268 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Sarah Benson is a specialist in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture, which she has taught at Cornell and Princeton Universities. She has published on the history of Renaissance souvenirs, the politics of collecting in early modern Rome, and Europeans in 17th-century Siam. Her other research areas include scientific illustration and the uses of animals in scientific experiments, the history of printed images, and early modern tourism to Rome. She is on the faculty of Saint John's College.