ABSTRACT
This chapter appraises the broad range of developments by undertaking a chronological review of geographical research of leisure and tourism as landscapes of national identity through to streetscapes of leisure. The chapter outlines and evaluates a series of eight such geographical discourses that have informed research into leisure and tourism landscapes. Each discourse is reflective of wider contemporaneous perspectives within social science and, as such, each is indicative of landscape theorising of the time. These discourses then serve to provide theoretical underpinnings to many of the discussions that follow in the subsequent chapters. The first discourse outlined in this chronology is that of colonial geographies with their emphasis on a regional approach to mapping landscapes. The second discourse reflects systematic geographies that have attempted to model the pattern of landscape in relation to particular land uses. Third, the chronology outlines a series of geographical approaches to landscape evaluations and scenic amenity classifications related to countryside leisure and recreation.
