ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses unchanging places, whether real or perceived – receiving locations and landscapes that aren’t apparently in flux, in contrast to the tumultuous and uncertain world around them. Change in climate, ecosystems, evolutionary adaption and even geology can occur in brief time periods, while social practices and geographies may have extensive timeframes. Britain, Victorian and Edwardian seaside towns were neglected when air travel became cheaper, encouraging mass charter flight tourism to warmer European holiday destinations in Spain, France, Italy and Greece, so fundamentally altering the geography and scale of European tourist mobility. Primarily a dispute over heritage and the built environment, the Sydney ‘green bans’ were also a fight about deeper issues of the nature and pace of change in the city. Investments and infrastructures in cities create patterns of work and residence, and divisions and distinctions within cities that persist with the lifecycle of that infrastructure.
