Multiple dwelling and tourism : negotiating place, home, and identity /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2006.
• Subjects: Second homes.; Wilderness areas > Psychological aspects.; Nature > Psychological aspects.; Vacation homes.; Land Resources.; Housing and Settlement.; Demography.; Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000); Leisure.; Tourism and Travel.; Geography.; Host guest relations.; Landscape.; Migration.; Sociology of tourism.; Tourism.; Tourism impact.; Electronic books.
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This book focuses on migration or the movement and people and examines multiple dwelling as a societal response to the major influences of increased mobility and amenity tourism (visiting or residing in high-quality landscapes such as mountains, beaches and forests for leisure experiences). It consi...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction / Norman McIntyre
• Place attachment and mobility / Per Gustafson
• Home and away? : creating identities and sustaining places in a multi-centred world / Daniel R. Williams, and Susan R. Van Patten
• Nomads of desire / Kevin E. McHugh
• Home away from home : the primary/second-home relationship / Harvey C. Perkins and David C. Thorns
• Cabin life : restorative and affective aspects / Tore Bjerke, Bjørn P. Kaltenborn, and Joar Vittersø
• The summer cottage : a dream in the Finnish forest / Karoliina Periäinen
• Home and away : re-visiting 'escape' in the context of second homes / Norman McIntyre, Joseph W. Roggenbuck, and Daniel R. Williams
• Places of escape : second home meanings in northern Wisconsin, USA / Richard C. Stedman
• Tourists making themselves at home : second homes as a part of tourist careers / Seija Tuulentie
• Seeking serenity : homes away from home in western Australia / John Selwood and Matthew Tonts
• Second-homes in the upper midwest / Susan I. Stewart and Daniel J. Stynes
• Second-home distributions in the USA's upper Great Lakes states : analysis and implications / Bradley A. Shellito
• The evolution, characteristics and spatial organization of cottages and cottagers in Manitoba, Canada / John Selwood
• Cottage country landscapes : the case of the Kawartha Lakes region, Ontario / John Marsh and Katie Griffiths
• Changing places : amenity coastal communities in transition / Norman McIntyre and Kathryn Pavlovich
• Citadels in the sun / Kevin E. McHugh
• Access under stress : The right of public access tradition in Sweden / Klas Sandell
• No gingerbread or doodads allowed : recreation residence tracts in the national forests of California / Linda M. Lux and Judy A. Rose
• Multiple dwelling : prospect and retrospect / Norman McIntyre, Daniel R. Williams and Kevin E. McHugh.