TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gray,Fred
TI  - Designing the seaside: architecture, society and nature 
SN  - 1861892748
U1  - 720.941 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - London
PB  - Reaktion
KW  - Seaside architecture
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - Seaside resorts
KW  - Social life and customs
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1; Nature and seaside architecture --; 2; Building the seaside --; 3; Representing the edge --; 4; The seaside as another place --; 5; Designing resort open spaces --; 6; Architecture for sea and beach --; 7; From bath house to water park --; 8; Walking on water --; 9; Pavilions and amusement parks --; 10; Sleeping by the sea
N2  - "In Designing the Seaside Fred Gray provides a history of seaside architecture from the 18th century to the present day, investigating leisure, entertainment, taste, fashion and gender, and shows how the seaside even became a hotbed for moral and sexual issues - from the early use of bathing machines to twentieth-century beauty pageants and naturist groups. He relates the evolution of resort architecture to sweeping changes in how seaside nature was experienced and used by holidaymakers. The book also traces the history of the coastal resort, with examples ranging from Regency Sidmouth to Victorian Scarborough and early 20th-century Morecambe, as well as assessing seaside developments in the USA and Continental Europe, from Coney Island and Santa Barbara to Nice and Trouville." "Featuring many colourful, informative and often entertaining photographs, drawings, guidebook illustrations, postcards and publicity posters from resorts around the world, Designing the Seaside is a thoroughly readables as well as a visually fascinating account of changing attitudes to holidaymaking and its setting."--BOOK JACKET
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