ABSTRACT
Jason Wood is Director of Heritage Consultancy Services, Lancaster, UK, and former Professor of Cultural Heritage at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |28 pages
Introduction
part |46 pages
Development of the amusement park in Britain
part |102 pages
International case histories
chapter 4|21 pages
The heritage of public space
Bondi Beach, Luna Park and the politics of amusement in Sydney
chapter 5|22 pages
The Turkish amusement park
Modernity, identity and cultural change in the early Republic
chapter 7|22 pages
The dilemma of the crowd
Atlantic City’s Steel Pier, George Hamid, and leisure and urban space in post-civil rights America
chapter 8|17 pages
The Parque de Atracciones de Vizcaya, Artxanda, Bilbao
Provincial identity, paternalistic optimism and economic collapse, 1972–1990
part |91 pages
Cultural significance, revival and heritage protection
chapter 9|24 pages
Last night of the fair
Heritage, resort identity and the closure of Southport’s Pleasureland
chapter 10|25 pages
Delivering the dream
Saving Britain’s amusement park heritage and the reawakening of Margate’s Dreamland
