The Weekender Effect: Hyperdevelopment in Mountain Towns: 1 by Robert William Sandford

By Robert William Sandford

Provocative, passionate and populist, RMB Manifestos are brief and concise non-fiction books of literary, severe, and cultural studies.

As towns keep growing at unheard of premiums, progressively more everyone is trying to find peaceable, weekend retreats in mountain or rural groups. ordinarily, those retreats are present in and round hotels or locations of typical attractiveness. accordingly, what as soon as have been small cities are quickly turning into mini towns, entire with dear housing, quickly foodstuff, site visitors snarls and environmental harm, all with very little notion for the significance of neighborhood background, local community and native culture.

The Weekender Effect is a passionate plea for thought of improvement in those bed room groups and for the required protection of neighborhood values, cultures and landscapes.

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