Airports Cities And The Jet Age

Author : Janet R. Bednarek
Publisher : Springer
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319311951

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Airports, Cities, and the Jet Age by Janet R. Bednarek Pdf

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.

Author : Alastair Gordon
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780226304564

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Naked Airport by Alastair Gordon Pdf

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, style, and even the way cities are built and business is done.

Author : Vanessa R. Schwartz
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-21
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780300247466

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Jet Age Aesthetic by Vanessa R. Schwartz Pdf

A stunning look at the profound impact of the jet plane on the mid-century aesthetic, from Disneyland to Life magazine Vanessa R. Schwartz engagingly presents the jet plane’s power to define a new age at a critical moment in the mid-20th century, arguing that the craft’s speed and smooth ride allowed people to imagine themselves living in the future. Exploring realms as diverse as airport architecture, theme park design, film, and photography, Schwartz argues that the jet created an aesthetic that circulated on the ground below. Visual and media culture, including Eero Saarinen’s airports, David Bailey’s photographs of the jet set, and Ernst Haas’s experiments in color photojournalism glamorized the imagery of motion. Drawing on unprecedented access to the archives of The Walt Disney Studios, Schwartz also examines the period’s most successful example of fluid motion meeting media culture: Disneyland. The park’s dedication to “people-moving” defined Walt Disney’s vision, shaping the very identity of the place. The jet age aesthetic laid the groundwork for our contemporary media culture, in which motion is so fluid that we can surf the internet while going nowhere at all.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Jet planes
ISBN : PSU:000072083154

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Jet Age Planning by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Civil Aeronautics Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105130633931

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Jet Age Planning by United States. Civil Aeronautics Administration Pdf

Author : Wilbur C. Rich
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820356747

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The Transformative City by Wilbur C. Rich Pdf

Sunbelt cities like Atlanta, Charlotte, and Miami, with their international airports, have a transportation advantage that overwhelms global competition from other southern cities. Why? The short answer to this question seems to be intuitive, but the long answer lies at the intersection of built infrastructure policies, civic boosterism, and the changing nature of American cities. Simply put, Charlotte leaders invested in the future and took advantage of its opportunities. In the twentieth century Charlotte, North Carolina, underwent several generational changes in leadership and saw the emergence of a pro-growth coalition active in matters of the city’s ambience, race relations, business decisions, and use of state and federal government grants-in-aid. In The Transformative City, Wilbur C. Rich examines the complex interrelationships of these factors to illustrate the uniqueness of North Carolina’s most populous city and explores the ways in which the development and success of Charlotte Douglas International Airport has in turn led to development in the city itself, including the growth of both the financial industries and political sectors. Rich also examines the role the federal government had in airport development, banking, and race relation reforms. The Transformative City traces the economic transformation of Charlotte as a city and its airport as an agent of change.

Author : R.E.G. Davies
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781944466077

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Airlines of the Jet Age by R.E.G. Davies Pdf

Airlines of the Jet Age provides the first comprehensive history of the world's airlines from the early 1960s to the present day. It begins with an informative introductory chapter on the infancy of flight and the development of air-transport craft used during the First and Second World Wars, and then wings into the "first" Jet Age--the advent of jet airlines. It continues through the "second" Jet Age of wide-bodied aircraft, such as the Boeing 747 and DC-10, and closes with the introduction of the "third" Jet Age, which begins with the giant double-decked Airbus A380. This reference book is an unparalelled reference for aviation buffs, covering airlines around the globe and throughout the modern eras of human flight. The last book written by renowned airline historian R.E.G. Davies, Airlines of the Jet Age is the ultimate resource for information and insight on modern air transport.

Author : Alexander Garvin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781610919494

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The Heart of the City by Alexander Garvin Pdf

Downtowns are more than economic engines: they are repositories of knowledge and culture and generators of new ideas, technology, and ventures. They are the heart of the city that drives its future. If we are to have healthy downtowns, we need to understand what downtown is all about; how and why some American downtowns never stopped thriving (such as San Jose and Houston), some have been in decline for half a century (including Detroit and St. Louis), and still others are resurging after temporary decline (many, including Lower Manhattan and Los Angeles). The downtowns that are prospering are those that more easily adapt to changing needs and lifestyles. In The Heart of the City, distinguished urban planner Alexander Garvin shares lessons on how to plan for a mix of housing, businesses, and attractions; enhance the public realm; improve mobility; and successfully manage downtown services. Garvin opens the book with diagnoses of downtowns across the United States, including the people, businesses, institutions, and public agencies implementing changes. In a review of prescriptions and treatments for any downtown, Garvin shares brief accounts--of both successes and failures--of what individuals with very different objectives have done to change their downtowns. The final chapters look at what is possible for downtowns in the future, closing with suggested national, state, and local legislation to create standard downtown business improvement districts to better manage downtowns. This book will help public officials, civic organizations, downtown business property owners, and people who care about cities learn from successful recent actions in downtowns across the country, and expand opportunities facing their downtown. Garvin provides recommendations for continuing actions to help any downtown thrive, ensuring a prosperous and thrilling future for the 21st-century American city.

Author : Sven Conventz,Ben Derudder,Alain Thierstein,Frank Witlox
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317120544

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Hub Cities in the Knowledge Economy by Sven Conventz,Ben Derudder,Alain Thierstein,Frank Witlox Pdf

The overarching research topic addressed in this book is the complex and multifaceted interaction between infrastructural accessibility/connectivity of city-regions on the one hand and knowledge generation in these city-regions on the other hand. To this end, the book brings together chapters analysing how infrastructural accessibility is related to changing patterns of business location of knowledge-intensive industries in city-regions. The chapters in this book specifically dwell on recent manifestations of and developments in the accessibility/knowledge-nexus, with a particular metageographical focus on how this materializes in major city-regions. In the different chapters, this shifting relation is broached from different perspectives (seaports, airports, brainports), at different scales (ranging from global-scale analyses to case studies), and by adopting a variety of methodologies (straddling the wide variety of methodological approaches currently adopted in human geography research). Researchers contributing to this edited volume come from different scholarly backgrounds (sociology, human geography, regional planning), which allows for a varied treatise of this research topic.

Author : Canada. Department of Transport. AIR SERVICES.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Aeronautics, Commercial
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038415209

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Canada in the Jet Age by Canada. Department of Transport. AIR SERVICES. Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Airports
ISBN : UIUC:30112106910380

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Federal Airport Act Extension by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045422487

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Federal Airport Act Extension, Hearing ... 89-2, on H.R. 13665, S. 3096, September 28, 1966 by United States. Congress. House. Interstate and Foreign Commerce Pdf

Author : Wim de Wit,Christopher James Alexander
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781606061282

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Overdrive by Wim de Wit,Christopher James Alexander Pdf

The drawings, models, and images highlighted in the Overdrive exhibition and catalogue reveal the complex and often underappreciated facets of Los Angeles and illustrate how the metropolis became an internationally recognized destination with a unique design vocabulary, canonical landmarks, and a coveted lifestyle. This investigation builds upon the groundbreaking work of generations of historians, theorists, curators, critics, and activists who have researched and expounded upon the development of Los Angeles. In this volume, thought-provoking essays shed more light on the exhibition's narratives, including Los Angeles's physical landscape, the rise of modernism, the region's influential residential architecture, its buildings for commerce and transportation, and architects' pioneering uses of bold forms, advanced materials, and new technologies. The related exhibition will be held at the J. Paul Getty Museum from April 9 to July 21, 2013.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1958-10
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008375557

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Air Service News Letter by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Aviation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 996 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Airports
ISBN : UCAL:B5165431

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Federal Airport Act, Alaska by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Aviation Pdf