Acknowledgements
Site-Seeing Aesthetics is the result of several years of work, and funding for the various stages of research from the University of Bergen has helped bring it to completion. I am very grateful to the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute (lacsi) at the University of Georgia for hosting my year-long research stay there. A warm thanks goes to Derek Bentley and Paul Duncan for daily companionship and conversations, and to John Lowe and Richard Gordon for making the stay at uga possible. I would also like to thank Manuel Díaz for my first tour of Dodger Stadium. For their helpful comments and suggestions to different parts of this project, I thank Jena Habegger-Conti, Asbjørn Grønstad, Øyvind Vågnes, and Tim Saunders, and extend particular appreciation to Henrik Gustafsson and Jennifer Ladino for their very valuable commentaries to the final draft of this book.
This book is for my dearest sojourn companions: Vilde, Emma, Sofie, Paul, and Kevin, for so many journeys to so many places.