Holidays after the Fall: Seaside Architecture and Urbanism in Bulgaria and Croatia by Elke Beyer, Anke Hagemann, Tracing Spaces, Michael Zinganel (Hardcover, 2013)
Every summer season, the sun-drenched coasts of Bulgaria and Croatia turn into densely inhabited, intensively exploited tourism industry hotspots. This book traces the various architectural and urban planning strategies pursued there since the mid 1950s, in order first to create then to further develop modern holiday destinations. It portrays (late-) modern tourism architecture and resorts of a remarkable quality and typological diversity, which have persisted both as a playground for the domestic labour force and as a viable product on the international market. Yet the authors focus above all on how, in the wake of political change and the privatization of business, individual resorts and outstanding buildings have been economically and physically restructured, in a myriad of ways, leaving a legacy of deserted ruins, cautious renovations, exorbitant conversions and on-going public protest. With photographs by Nikola Mihov, Wolfgang Thaler, et al.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Jovis Verlag
ISBN-13
9783868592269
eBay Product ID (ePID)
141620510
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Book Title
Holidays after the Fall: Seaside Architecture and Urbanism in Bulgaria and Croatia
Author
Elke Beyer, Anke Hagemann, Tracing Spaces, Michael Zinganel
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2013
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Weight
733g
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Editor
Michael Zinganel, Tracing Spaces, Elke Beyer, Anke Hagemann