Everything Old is New Again: Caravans, Caravan Parks and Nostalgia
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Greenhalgh, Emma
Minnery, John
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2016
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This paper uses nostalgia, and especially 'social nostalgia', as a key to exploring the
impacts of changes in the caravanning landscape since the early part of the twentieth
century, using the Gold Coast as a case study. It shows that whilst the caravanning
landscape has changed there is a resurgence of nostalgia for the simplicity and
communality of the past, which is threatened by both land development pressures and
changes within the industry. An expression of this new nostalgia is attempt to recapture
the past through a growth in vintage caravanning.This paper uses nostalgia, and especially 'social nostalgia', as a key to exploring the
impacts of changes in the caravanning landscape since the early part of the twentieth
century, using the Gold Coast as a case study. It shows that whilst the caravanning
landscape has changed there is a resurgence of nostalgia for the simplicity and
communality of the past, which is threatened by both land development pressures and
changes within the industry. An expression of this new nostalgia is attempt to recapture
the past through a growth in vintage caravanning.
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Proceedings of the 13th Australasian Urban History Planning History Conference. Icons: The Making, Meaning and Undoing of Urban Icons and Iconic Cities
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Subject
History and Theory of the Built Environment (excl. Architecture)