Airports, Cities, And The Jet Age: Us Airports Since 1945 (palgrave Studies In The History Of Science And Technology)
by Janet R. Bednarek /
2016 / English / PDF
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This book explores the relationship between cities and their
commercial airports. These vital transportation
facilities are locally owned and managed and civic leaders and
boosters have made them central to often expansive economic
development dreams, including the construction of
architecturally significant buildings. However, other
metropolitan residents have paid a high price for the expansion
of air transportation, as battles over jet aircraft noise
resulted not only in quieter jet engine technologies, but
profound changes in the metropolitan landscape with the
clearance of both urban and suburban neighborhoods. And
in the wake of 9/11, the US commercial airport has emerged as
the place where Americans most fully experience the security
regime introduced after those terrorist attacks.
This book explores the relationship between cities and their
commercial airports. These vital transportation
facilities are locally owned and managed and civic leaders and
boosters have made them central to often expansive economic
development dreams, including the construction of
architecturally significant buildings. However, other
metropolitan residents have paid a high price for the expansion
of air transportation, as battles over jet aircraft noise
resulted not only in quieter jet engine technologies, but
profound changes in the metropolitan landscape with the
clearance of both urban and suburban neighborhoods. And
in the wake of 9/11, the US commercial airport has emerged as
the place where Americans most fully experience the security
regime introduced after those terrorist attacks.