Designing the seaside : architecture, society and nature / Fred Gray.
"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 ma...
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London :
Reaktion,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.