Overview
- Provides the first analysis of the growth of the airport as an economic, environmental, security, and technological force in American cities
- Written by one of the leading historians on airports and airlines in the United States
- Appeals to urban historians, historians of policy and industry development, and modern American historians
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology (PSHST)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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From 30,000 Feet to Ground Level
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Security: Hijackings, Hare Krishna, and September 11
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Janet R. Bednarek is a professor of history at the University of Dayton, USA where she teaches classes in both urban and aviation history. She is the author of several books including America’s Airports: Airfield Development Since 1918 as well as articles on American urban and transportation history.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Airports, Cities, and the Jet Age
Book Subtitle: US Airports Since 1945
Authors: Janet R. Bednarek
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31195-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-31194-4Published: 15 September 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80987-8Published: 09 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-31195-1Published: 31 August 2016
Series ISSN: 2730-972X
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9738
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 291
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: US History, History of Science, Urban History, Urban Studies/Sociology