Tourism, Urbanization, and the Evolving Periphery of the European Union

Max Holleran is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Melbourne. He has written about housing, architectural aesthetics, post-socialist urban planning, and European Union integration for anthropology, sociology, and history journals as well as for Boston Review, Dissent, Los Angeles Review of Books, New Republic, Slate, and the Times Literary Supplement.

• Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Tourism and Europe’s Shifting Periphery: Post-Franco Spain and Post-Socialist Bulgaria.- Chapter 3 Coasts of Aspiration: Climbing the Tourism ‘Ladder’.- Chapter 4 Leisure Spaces and the Aesthetics of Europe.- Chapter 5 Conclusion: Returning to Peripherality: the Social Experience of Urban Crisis.