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Amenity Migration and Recreational Homes

Mobility and amenity-driven migration are major forces reshaping many rural areas. The more mobilized nature of employment, retirement, and lifestyles, which increasingly involve circulating through geographically extended social networks, has enormous impact on public lands and amenity landscapes. Yet most conceptions of migration, tourism, culture, home, community, and identity are built on the presumption that people normally reside in a single place with high levels of residential mobility seen as the exception than the rule. A research program on amenity migration and recreational homes seeks to understand the impact of increasing geographic mobility on how people value and use public lands. This work involves studies of owners and users of second homes adjacent to national forest lands in Wisconsin and Colorado , and the extent to which seasonal homes add to or detract from a shared sense of place and community identity.

Selected Publications

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• McIntyre, N., Williams, D. R., & McHugh, K. E. (Eds.). (in press). Multiple dwelling and tourism: Negotiating place, home and identity. Cambridge , MA : CABI Publishing.

• McIntyre, N., Roggenbuck, J. W., & Williams, D. R. (in press). Home and away: Re-visiting ‘escape' in the context of second homes. In McIntyre, N., Williams, D. R., & McHugh, K. E. (Eds.), Multiple dwelling and tourism: Negotiating place, home and identity . Cambridge , MA : CABI Publishing.

• Williams, D. R., & Van Patten, S. R. (in press). Home and away? Creating identities and sustaining places in a multicentered world. In McIntyre, N., Williams, D. R., & McHugh, K. E. (Eds.), Multiple dwelling and tourism: Negotiating place, home and identity . Cambridge , MA : CABI Publishing.

• Williams, D. R., & McIntyre, N. (2001). Where heart and home reside: Changing constructions of home and identity. In Trends 2000: Shaping the Future (Sept. 17-20, 2000; pp. 392-403 ) . Lansing , MI : Michigan State University , Dept. of Park, Recreation & Tourism Resources.

• Williams, D. R., & Kaltenborn, B. P. (1999). Leisure places and modernity: The use and meaning of recreational cottages in Norway and the USA. . In D. Crouch (Ed.), Leisure/tourism geographies: Practices and geographical knowledge (pp. 214-230). London , UK : Routledge.

• Williams, D. R., & Van Patten, S. (1998). Back to the future? Tourism, place, and sustainability. In L. Andersson & T. Bloom (Eds.) Sustainability and development: The future of small society in a dynamic economy (Proceedings of the Karlstad International Seminar, May 12-14, 1997, pp. 359-370). Karlstad , Sweden : University of Karlstad , Regional Science Research Unit.

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