Overview
Breaks new ground by identifying the Landside–Airside boundary as the single most important feature that shapes an airport
Distinctive for using a Science and Technology Studies’ toolbox as a way to understand the airport’s historical and technological change
Offers fascinating insights, first-hand encounters and privileged access to primary sources.
Written in an engaging manner, providing anecdote, irony, political position, critique and humor, adding to the readability of the text
Organized in a clear chronological sequence, helping the reader to situate and span between the very basic concepts of airfields at the turn of the 20th Century, to the super complex airports of today
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About this book
In order to answer those questions the author embarks on a thorough revision of airport history and airport planning that in the end builds up a new theory about how airports are formed from the outset. Within its journey from the early airfield to the newest hubs of today, Dr. Marquez identifies for the first time the Landside–Airside boundary as the single most important feature that shapes an airport. In this sense, his finding challenges the “historical linearity” that, until today, used to explain a century of airports.
From both an analytical and theoretical S&TS stance, Dr. Marquez assures that it is only when airports needed to be fully reinvented (LaGuardia, Dulles and Tampa) when they become transparent and we may be able to understand their lack of technological stability.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Landside | Airside
Book Subtitle: Why Airports Are the Way They Are
Authors: Victor Marquez
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3362-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-3361-3Published: 05 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-3362-0Published: 18 January 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 286
Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations
Topics: Science and Technology Studies, Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Architectural History and Theory