Oh! I do like to be beside the seaside! Really?

I took these images during a regular walk I do between Brighton's palace pier and it's marina. The journey follows the Victorian arches that once formed the promenade that was Madeira terrace which is now off limits to local and visitor access due to it's dangerous disrepair. I've done this walk a number of times over the last 15 years of living in Brighton, and although the sea view is my focal point of the journey I am very much aware of the continual deterioration of the surrounding promenade and sea front which is quite saddening and thought provoking. I'm curious as to why so many tourists and people living in other urban areas of the UK flock to Brighton's beach year after year when the area has become so run down and poorly maintained, does the backdrop view really not matter anymore, is it just the habitual thrill of being by the seaside come what may, the terraces just being a forgotten piece of architecture that are now part of a redundant past devolved from present day progress. In taking these photographs there was a realization for me of just how disconnected it's history had become with it's uncertain future. Presently, there is a crowd funding campaign to kick start some of it's repair but the amount hoped to be raised is a very, very small proportion of the overall estimate needed to complete the whole of it's restoration and time is running out, with the terraces forming just one very large part of the promenade's overall decline.