The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera Audiobook Libro.fm

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The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera traces the development of the FloridaAlabama coast as a tourist destination from the late 1920s and early 1930s when it was sparsely populated with small fishing villages through to the tragic and devastating BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010

Harvey H Jackson III focuses on the stretch of coast from Mobile Bay and Gulf Shores Alabama east to Panama City Floridaan area known as the Redneck Riviera Jackson explores the rise of this area as a vacation destination for the lower Souths middle and workingclass families following World War II the building boom of the 1950s and 1960s and the emergence of the Spring Break season From the late sixties through 1979 severe hurricanes destroyed many small motels cafes bars and early cottages that gave the small beach towns their essential character A second building boom ensued in the 1980s dominated by highrise condominiums and large resort hotels Jackson traces the tensions surrounding the gentrification of the late 1980s and 1990s and the collapse of the housing market in 2008 While his major focus is on the social cultural and economic development he also documents the environmental and financial impacts of natural disasters and the politics of beach access and dune and sea turtle protection