The historical production of holiday scenarios in tourism policies: the urbanization of S’Agaró (1916-1949)

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turistic space, national identity, consumer society, garden city, Costa Brava

Abstract

This article analyzes the relationship between tourism promotion policies implemented to attract the first elite tourism to Catalonia and the production of national identities in the first half of the Twentieth Century, in a historical context of significant social and political changes in Spain and Europe. The analysis of the project of the Garden City of S’Agaró (1916-1926), together with its promotional documentation, allows us to relate the construction of the spaces destined to tourism and the process of resignification of them in the framework of the confrontations and convergences between the Catalan regionalist policies and the nationalist ones promoted by the Franco regime. The result will show how the tourist imaginary was staged and materialized in Catalonia, in close correspondence with the emergence of the modern consumer society.

Author Biographies

Nadia Fava , Universitat de Girona

Architect and Ph.D. in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Associate professor of urban planning at the University of Girona and co-responsible for the research group Architecture and Territory. She focuses her research on the history and theory of urbanism from a socio-cultural perspective of the 19th and 20th centuries. Tourism as an economic activity related to the construction of territory, image and conflictual identities has been the focus of much of his research, published in scientific journals such as: Journal of Urban History, Urbanística, Planning Perspective. Town Planning Review, Zainak, Cuadernos de antropología-etnografía, and in books chapters such as Tourism in the City: Towards an Integrative Agenda on Urban Tourism (2016), Meditterani. Traduzioni della Modernità (2017).

Marisa García Vergara , Universitat de Girona

Architect and Ph.D. in Theory and History of Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Professor Serra Hunter at the University of Girona and co-responsible for the research group Architecture and Territory. She focuses her transdisciplinary research on the interrelations between art, politics and modern culture of the historical avant-garde. She collaborates with cultural institutions such as museums, foundations and galleries, with contributions to exhibitions and catalogs such as Piedad y Terror en Picasso. El camino a Guernica (2018), Habitación (2019) o Hiperespacios (2020). She has published books such as Georges Bataille y la parte del arte (2013), Le Corbusier. Arte y Diseño (2017) and articles in scientific journals such as Journal of Architecture, Town Planning Review, Concreta, Casabella, Arquitectura Viva, Arte y Parte, among others.

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Published

2024-02-09

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No. 107 (2023)

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