The amusement park : history, culture and the heritage of pleasure / edited by Jason Wood.

Introduction: 1. Fair grounds for debate: Celebrating the heritage of amusement parks / (Jason Wood) -- Part 1. Development of the amusement park in Britain -- 2. Mechanical pleasures: The appeal of British amusement parks, 1900-1914 / (Josephine Kane) -- 3. From Battersea to Alton Towers: In search of the great British theme park / (Ian Trowell) -- Part 2. International case histories -- 4. The heritage of public space: Bondi Beach, Luna Park and the politics of amusement in Sydney / (Caroline Ford) -- 5. The Turkish amusement park: Modernity, identity and cultural change in the early republic / (Jason Wood and B. Nilg�un �Oz) -- 6. Knott's Berry Farm: The improbable amusement park in the shadow of Disneyland / (Gary Cross) -- 7. The dilemma of the crowd: Atlantic City's Steel Pier, George Hamid, and leisure and urban space in post-Civil Rights America / (Bryant Simon) -- 8. The Parque de Atracciones de Vizcaya, Artxanda, Bilbao: Provincial identity, paternalistic optimism and economic collapse, 1972-1990 / (John K. Walton) -- Part 3. Cultural significance, revival and heritage protection -- 9. Last night of the fair: Heritage, resort identity and the closure of Southport's Pleasureland / (Anya Chapman and Duncan Light) -- 10. Delivering the dream: Saving Britain's amusement park heritage and the reawakening of Margate's Dreamland / (Nick Laister) -- 11. Designing the past: Implications of a new vision for Dreamland / (Eleanor McGrath) -- 12. The designation of amusement parks and fairground rides in England / (Allan Brodie and Roger Bowdler)