Guided by the Lights in Magaluf and Palma

ABSTRACT

To travel the 6 miles (10 km) around the bay, from the historic alleys and squares of Mallorca’s urbane and sophisticated capital Palma to the notorious beach resort of Magaluf, with its reputation as an outpost of “Binge Britain,” is to traverse a great cultural and class divide. These photographs record our ongoing interest in the contrasting tourist cultures and the different socio-spatial logics that these two places represent for vacationers. One of our aims is to question and in some ways to visually transgress the boundaries that separate them and the different kinds of tourist gaze that they promote.

Keywords:

• Magaluf
• light
• tourism
• photography
• urbanism

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Ben Stringer

Ben Stringer studied at PCL and The Bartlett, UCL. He worked for numerous professional practices in London and in New York. He has been a lecturer in architecture for many years, including at the Bartlett UCL, Oxford Brookes University and the University of Westminster, where he is currently a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment.

Jane McAllister

Jane McAllister studied architecture at the Architectural Association London, Cooper Union, New York and The Bartlett, UCL. She has practiced as an architect and has taught architecture for many years in universities in England, including Westminster and Oxford Brookes. She is currently course leader for the undergraduate architecture program at the Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design, London Metropolitan University.