Würze und Abwechslung buchstäblich vor unserer Haustür liegen

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The urge to escape the city and live in nature has never been stronger

Marianne Moore

Durch die Gärten spazierend versuchte sie

The Beach Machine - Making and Operating the Mediterranean Coastline Mai Abu ElDahab Würze und Abwechslung buchstäblich vorAggressively 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