Designing the Seaside
Subtitle: Architecture, Society and Nature
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: September 5, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9781861892744
Subjects: Architecture; Social history; 20th century; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; International Architecture - British; British Isles; History - Specific Styles; Architecture / History; History - General; Great Britain; History; Seaside architecture; Seaside resorts
First sentence: The invention of the Western seaside as a site of leisure and pleasure almost three centuries ago went hand-in-hand with the development of a novel urban form - the seaside resort - and the emergence of a new pleasure architecture beside the sea.