Large Heritage Waterfronts on Small Tourist Islands: the case of the Royal Naval Dockyard,Bermuda |
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Authors: | John Tunbridge |
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Affiliation: | 1. rvoase@lincoln.ac.uk |
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Abstract: | The paper examines the historical and present-day role of the Royal Naval Dockyard, a globally motivated waterfront development of recurrent local dominance in the affairs of a small island community. Its historical role as a bastion of imperial naval defence, the Gibraltar of the West, is reviewed from the Victorian era until 1945; and its recent and continuing revitalisation, as heritage for tourist-leisure adaptive reuse, is discussed and illustrated. Its relationship to naval/waterfront heritage-oriented innovation elsewhere is considered; and the risks of such developments for the identity and tourist-historic economy of this and possibly other (ex)colonial naval outposts are queried. |
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Keywords: | Bermuda Islands Naval Heritage Tourism Waterfront Revitalisation |
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