Description
Jason Wood is Director of Heritage Consultancy Services, Lancaster, UK, and former Professor of Cultural Heritage at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1 Fair grounds for debate: Celebrating the heritage of amusement parks
JASON WOOD
PART I Development of the amusement park in Britain
2 Mechanical pleasures: The appeal of British amusement parks, 1900–1914
JOSEPHINE KANE
3 From Battersea to Alton Towers: In search of the Great British theme park
IAN TROWELL
PART II International case histories
4 The heritage of public space: Bondi Beach, Luna Park and the politics of amusement in Sydney
CAROLINE FORD
5 The Turkish amusement park: Modernity, identity and cultural change in the early republic
JASON WOOD AND B. NILGÜN ÖZ
6 Knott’s Berry Farm: The improbable amusement park in the shadow of Disneyland
GARY CROSS
7 The dilemma of the crowd: Atlantic City’s Steel Pier, George Hamid, and leisure and urban space in post-civil rights America
BRYANT SIMON
8 The Parque de Atracciones de Vizcaya, Artxanda, Bilbao: Provincial identity, paternalistic optimism and economic collapse, 1972–1990
JOHN K. WALTON
PART III Cultural significance, revival and heritage protection
9 Last night of the fair: Heritage, resort identity and the closure of Southport’s Pleasureland
ANYA CHAPMAN AND DUNCAN LIGHT
10 Delivering the dream: Saving Britain’s amusement park heritage and the reawakening of Margate’s Dreamland
NICK LAISTER
11 Designing the past: Implications of a new vision for Dreamland
ELEANOR MCGRATH
12 The designation of amusement parks and fairground rides in England
ALLAN BRODIE AND ROGER BOWDLER
