Title & Author:

Architecture and tourism : perceptions, performance and place / edited by D. Medina Lasansky and Brian McLaren.

Edition:

English ed.

Publication:

New York : Berg, 2004.

Description:

xx, 275 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 1937 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

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

1859737048 (cloth)
9781859737040
1859737099 (pbk.)
9781859737095

Subject:

Architecture and tourism.
Architecture et tourisme.
Architecture and society

Added entries:

Lasansky, D. Medina.
McLaren, Brian D., 1956-
McLaren, Brian

Holdings:

Location: Library main 250480
Call No.: NA2543.T68 A7 2004
Status: Available