Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Metropolitan AirportCondition: NewSubtitle: JFK International and Modern New YorkISBN-10: 0812247418EAN: 9780812247411ISBN: 9780812247411Publisher: University of Pennsylvania PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 09/10/2015Description: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Nicholas Dagen BloomGenre: Society & CultureBook Series: American Business, Politics, and SocietyTopic: Social Sciences, Technology & EngineeringRelease Year: 2015 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Metropolitan Airport
Title: The Metropolitan Airport
Subtitle: JFK International and Modern New York
ISBN-10: 0812247418
EAN: 9780812247411
ISBN: 9780812247411
Release Date: 09/10/2015
Release Year: 2015
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Technology & Engineering
Number of Pages: 248 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Metropolitan Airport : Jfk International and Modern New York
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2015
Subject: Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Aviation / Commercial, United States / Northeast / Middle Atlantic (NJ, NY, Pa), Public Policy / Regional Planning, Sociology / Urban
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 19 Oz
Item Length: 9.3 in
Author: Nicholas Dagen Bloom
Subject Area: Travel, Transportation, Political Science, Social Science
Item Width: 6.4 in
Series: American Business, Politics, and Society Ser.
Format: Hardcover
