George Papam, David Bergé, Phevos Kallitsis (eds.), The Beach Machine: Making and Operating the Mediterranean Coastline Theory Thomas Lawson

Thomas Lawson

all the time – often on scraps of paper that have filled notebook after notebook

Sandro Della Noce

begin to have doubts about how to direct their own lives amidst these accelerating control mechanisms

George Papam, David Bergé, Phevos Kallitsis (eds.), The Beach Machine: Making and Operating the Mediterranean Coastline Theory Thomas LawsonAggressively rebounding after recessions and the pandemic, sprawling landscapes of tourism in the Mediterranean continue to build upon the iconic spatial typology of sea & sun vacationing: the beach. But behind the leisurely scattered bodies and the quiescent summer shores, beachfronts are assembled as intensely ordered infrastructures for the heavy machineries of tourism. Approaching the beach as an operational socio technical landscape, this book