Research Catalog

Title

Profits and politics in paradise : the development of Hilton Head Island / by Michael N. Danielson ; with the assistance of Patricia R.F. Danielson.

Author

Danielson, Michael N.

Publication

Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, ©1995.

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Additional Authors

Danielson, Patricia R. F.

Description

xv, 323 pages : illustrations, map; 23 cm

Summary

Just north of where the Savannah River flows into the Atlantic lies an idyllic stretch of beach, marsh, and forest known as Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. In the 1950s, Charles Fraser transformed this almost forgotten barrier island into one of America's premier vacation destinations and, in doing so, invented the modern resort and retirement community. In this case study of that archetypal development and the others that followed on Hilton Head Island, Michael N. Danielson explores the interplay of private power and public authority as well as the dilemma of growth in America's recreation-based communities. Danielson contends that Hilton Head offers fertile ground for evaluating the influence of private elites and public officials on largely self-contained resort and retirement communities, an increasingly important but previously unexamined component of urban growth in America. Identifying growth as the island's central political issue, Danielson submits that resorts like Hilton Head face the similar predicament - the reality that economic expansion alters the very attributes that attracted developers, residents, and vacationers to a particular locale. His case study illustrates the impact of growth on the economic and political fortunes of a geographic area and the residents living in it.

Subject

• Planned communities > South Carolina > Hilton Head Island > History
• City planning > South Carolina > Hilton Head Island > History
• Retirement communities > South Carolina > Hilton Head Island > History
• Recreation areas > South Carolina > Hilton Head Island > History
• Resorts > South Carolina > Hilton Head Island > History
• Collectivités nouvelles > Caroline du Sud > Sea Pines Plantation (Hilton Head) > Histoire
• Collectivités nouvelles > Caroline du Sud > Hilton Head, Île > Histoire
• Urbanisme > Caroline du Sud > Sea Pines Plantation (Hilton Head) > Histoire
• Villages-retraite > Caroline du Sud > Hilton Head, Île > Histoire
• Zones de loisirs > Caroline du Sud > Hilton Head, Île > Histoire
• Lieux de villégiature > Caroline du Sud > Hilton Head, Île > Histoire
• City planning
• Planned communities
• Recreation areas
• Resorts
• Retirement communities
• Vakantiekampen
• Bejaarden
• Hilton Head Island (S.C.) > History
• Hilton Head, Île (Car. du S.) > Histoire
• Sea Pines Plantation (Hilton Head, Car. du S.) > Histoire
• South Carolina > Hilton Head Island
• City planning South Carolina Sea Pines Plantation History
• Hilton Head Island (S.C.) History
• Planned communities South Carolina Hilton Head Island History
• Planned communities South Carolina Sea Pines Plantation History
• Recreation areas South Carolina Hilton Head Island History
• Resorts South Carolina Hilton Head Island History
• Retirement communities South Carolina Hilton Head Island History
• Sea Pines Plantation (Hilton Head, S.C.) History

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-315) and index.

Contents

Ripe for development -- Uncommon vision -- Developing Sea Pines plantation -- Beyond the Sea Pines gates -- Benevolent dictators -- Plantations and people -- Growing pains -- Across the bridge -- In their own hands -- Second fall of the plantations -- A friend in court -- The new Hilton Head -- Preserving paradise -- Private and public communities.

ISBN

• 1570030391
• 9781570030390

LCCN

95004364

OCLC

• ocm32237787
• 32237787
• SCSB-8936837

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library