The Metropolitan Airport

Author : Nicholas Dagen Bloom
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812291646
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Metropolitan Airport written by Nicholas Dagen Bloom and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John F. Kennedy International Airport is one of New York City's most successful and influential redevelopment projects. Built and defined by outsize personalities—Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, famed urban planner Robert Moses, and Port Authority Executive Director Austin Tobin among them—JFK was fantastically expensive and unprecedented in its scale. By the late 1940s, once-polluted marshlands had become home to one of the world's busiest and most advanced airfields. Almost from the start, however, environmental activists in surrounding neighborhoods and suburbs clashed with the Port Authority. These fierce battles in the long term restricted growth and, compounded by lackluster management and planning, diminished JFK's status and reputation. Yet the airport remained a key contributor to metropolitan vitality: New Yorkers bound for adventure and business still boarded planes headed to distant corners of the globe, billions of tourists and immigrants came and went, and mammoth air cargo facilities bolstered the region's commerce. In The Metropolitan Airport, Nicholas Dagen Bloom chronicles the untold story of JFK International's complicated and turbulent relationship with the New York City metropolitan region. In spite of its reputation for snarled traffic, epic delays, endless construction, and abrasive employees, the airport was a key player in shifting patterns of labor, transportation, and residence; the airport both encouraged and benefited from the dispersion of population and economic activity to the outer boroughs and suburbs. As Bloom shows, airports like JFK are vibrant parts of their cities and powerfully influence urban development. The Metropolitan Airport is an indispensable book for those who wish to understand the revolutionary impact of airports on the modern American city.

Author : Daniel W. Mason
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738588513
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Detroit Metro Airport written by Daniel W. Mason and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the years, Detroit Metro Airport has grown and changed with the times. During the golden age of flight, the airport served the local community by providing transportation and employment. In World War II, Romulus Army Air Field served the military by transporting B-24 Liberator bombers to the East Coast. It was also a transfer base for P-39 Airacobras and P-63 Kingcobras to be flown to the Soviet Union via Great Falls, Montana, and Alaska. The war ended, and the airport became a civilian operation again, with the Air National Guard maintaining a presence. During the Cold War, the airport saw the presence of nuclear weapons, but by the end of 1971 the weapons and the Air National Guard were gone. Constant upgrades in technology for safety and security make the passenger experience as pleasant and exciting as possible.

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Publisher : Federal Aviation Administration
ISBN 13 : 9780160053047
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Planning the Metropolitan Airport System written by and published by Federal Aviation Administration. This book was released on 1970-05 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Federal Aviation Administration
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Planning the Metropolitan Airport System written by United States. Federal Aviation Administration and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Civil Aeronautics Administration
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Airport Financial Statements written by United States. Civil Aeronautics Administration and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alastair Gordon
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1466869119
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Naked Airport written by Alastair Gordon and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full cultural history of the ultimate modern structure: the airport, revealed as never before ... Since its origins in the muddy fields of flying machines, the airport has arguably become one of the defining institutions of modern life. In Naked Airport, critic Alastair Gordon ranges from global geopolitics to action movies to the daily commute, showing how airports have changed our sense of time, distance, travel, style, and even the way cities are built and business is done. Gordon introduces the people who shaped this place of sudden transportation: pilots like Charles Lindberg, architects like Eero Saarinen, politicians like Fiorello La Guardia, and Hitler, who built Berlin's Tempelhof as a showcase for Fascist power. He describes the airport's futuristic contributions, such as credit cards, in the form of fly-now-pay-later schemes, and he charts its shift in popular perception, from glamorous to infuriating. Finally, he analyzes the airport's function in war and peace—its gatekeeper role controlling immigration, its appeal to revolutionaries since the hijackings of the 1960s, and its new frontline position in the struggle against terror. Compelling and accessible, Naked Airport is an original history of a long-neglected yet central creation of modern reality and imagination.

Author : United States. Federal Aviation Administration
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Planning the Metropolitan Airport System written by United States. Federal Aviation Administration and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nashville Metropolitan Airport Proposed New Parallel Runway written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1046 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport Master Plan Update and Noise Compatibility Plan, Romulus written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dual Track Airport Planning Process, Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, Twin Cities, Hennepin County, Dakota County written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: