Landside | Airside Why Airports Are the Way They Are /

• Main Author: Marquez, Victor (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Technology-Sociological aspects.; Transportation engineering.; Traffic engineering.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Architecture.; Science and Technology Studies.; Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Architectural History and Theory.

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...

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.