Profits and politics in paradise : the development of Hilton Head Island /

Just north of where the Savannah River flows into the Atlantic lies an idyllic stretch of beach, marsh, and forest known as Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. In the 1950s, Charles Fraser transformed this almost forgotten barrier island into one of America's premier vacation destinations and,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Danielson, Michael N.
Otros Autores: Danielson, Patricia R. F.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, ©1995.
Temas:
Planned communities > South Carolina > Sea Pines Plantation > History.
Planned communities > South Carolina > Hilton Head Island > History.
City planning > South Carolina > Sea Pines Plantation > History.
Retirement communities > South Carolina > Hilton Head Island > History.
Recreation areas > South Carolina > Hilton Head Island > History.
Resorts > South Carolina > Hilton Head Island > History.
NATURE > Natural Resources.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Environmental Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Green Business.
City planning
Planned communities
Recreation areas
Resorts
Retirement communities
Recreatiewoningen.
Sociology & Social History.
Social Sciences.
Communities - Urban Groups.
Hilton Head Island (S.C.) > History.
Sea Pines Plantation (Hilton Head, S.C.) > History.
Hilton Head, Île (Car. du S.) > Histoire.
South Carolina > Hilton Head Island
South Carolina > Sea Pines Plantation (Hilton Head Island)
Hilton Head.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Just north of where the Savannah River flows into the Atlantic lies an idyllic stretch of beach, marsh, and forest known as Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. In the 1950s, Charles Fraser transformed this almost forgotten barrier island into one of America's premier vacation destinations and, in doing so, invented the modern resort and retirement community. In this case study of that archetypal development and the others that followed on Hilton Head Island, Michael N. Danielson explores the interplay of private power and public authority as well as the dilemma of growth in America's recreation-based communities. Danielson contends that Hilton Head offers fertile ground for evaluating the influence of private elites and public officials on largely self-contained resort and retirement communities, an increasingly important but previously unexamined component of urban growth in America. Identifying growth as the island's central political issue, Danielson submits that resorts like Hilton Head face the similar predicament - the reality that economic expansion alters the very attributes that attracted developers, residents, and vacationers to a particular locale. His case study illustrates the impact of growth on the economic and political fortunes of a geographic area and the residents living in it.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xv, 323 pages) : illustrations, map
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-315) and index.
ISBN:0585347522
9780585347523

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