Landside / Airside Why Airports Are the Way They Are /

Why do we love and hate airports at the same time? Have you been a victim of tiresome walks, congestion, long lines, invasive pat-downs, eternal delays and so on? Perhaps no other technological system has been challenged by continuously changing paradigms like airports. Think a minute on rail statio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marquez, Victor (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: e-Book
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Subjects:
Science > Social aspects.
Transportation engineering.
Traffic engineering.
Human geography.
Architecture > History.
Science and Technology Studies.
Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering.
Human Geography.
Architectural History and Theory.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One: "The Romantic Borderline"- From Fences to the Skywalk: Landside-Airside Space in an Early American Airport: New York LaGuardia Terminal 1933-1939
  • Chapter Two: "Reinventing the Airport?": Annex 14, Dulles Airport's "Mobile Lounge" and other Jet-Age paradigms: 1946-1962
  • Chapter Three: "The Landside Airside Concept": Breaking to Reconnect: The "People Mover" at Tampa International Airport, 1962-1971
  • Chapter Four: "Are Landside-Airside Boundaries Cultural Mirrors?": Reinventions, Innovations and Society
  • Chapter Five: "The Liquid Airport": Security, Permeability, and Containment in Airports
  • Conclusion
  • Postscript
  • Bibliography.

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