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Liverpool, Berlin, and Paris haven't got that much in common, but all three do share one exceptional characteristic: each has an airport built in the 1930s that still exists. The buildings are protected for special historical and architectural interest, making them an integral part of the cultural heritage. The airports - Tempelhof in Berlin, Le Bourget in Paris and Speke in Liverpool - are traced from inception to current status. The book is an initiative of L'Europe de l'air, a cultural project that focuses on the aviation architecture of Europe and is supported by the European Commission. Its aim is to create a better appreciation of aeronautical sites in general and a greater understanding of their historical significance. This remarkable book pays tribute to a rich architectural period. ... Read more

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A comprehensive guide to the planning and design of airport terminals and their facilities. The book covers all types of airport terminals found around the world and highlights the environmental and techinical issues that the design teams have to address. Contemporary examples are critically reviewed through a series of case studies. ... Read more

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Almost a step-by-step manual on airport design
Modern Terminal is the most complete manual-like book I've read so far. It gives valuable information from the first to the last page and they are not restricted to technical issues like areas, flows and other stuff. Theauthor also makes comments on economic and psychologic aspects of anairport's design process. Trends are also analyzed. Lots of airports arereviewed. Dozens of pictures and plans help visualizing what's in the text.The only drawback is that there could be an annex with useful dimensionslike aircraft size, loading bridge size and etc. The book covers the entireprocess since masterplanning until administration. Really helpful andup-to-date. Excellent. ... Read more

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The realisation of mankind's age-old dream of flight is probably one of the collective adventures that best characterises the century we have just left, its greatest novelty. In the space of only three or four generations aviation has conquered the entire planet and international airports have developed into sleepless cities. At the beginning of 1999, the European Commission sponsored an international project on aviation's architectural heritage, set up at the instigation of the French Ministry of Culture together with English Heritage and Landesdenkmalamt Berlin, the official heritage body of the German capital. The project's primary aim was to contribute to the better understanding and conservation of aviation architecture, focusing on three pilot-sites: Berlin-Tempelhof, Paris-Le Bourget and Liverpool-Speke - all rare survivors from the late 1930s.An international network of expertise on aviation architecture grew out of three international workshops, the proceedings of which are presented here. Through contributions from historians, architects, development agencies and airline companies, among others, the book examines how best to identify and preserve the sites worth keeping, the place of the airport in the 21st-century city, and the future of our historic airports. ... Read more

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Insightful and Entertaining
As a frequent traveler and architecture aficianado, I have always been fascinated with airports--their structure, symbolism, meaning.This book is an engaging and entertaining look into an often overlooked (but very important) element of our built environment.It reads quickly and and is very enjoyable.

Flyover country
Fun and informative reading for an aircraft junkie also curious about architecture (I can't be the only one, can I?). Gordon took on a topic that's surprisingly visceral: why do airports, and air travel, make us feel so melancholy -- so harried, so uncomfortable, so nostalgic for an era most of us never knew? It's amusing and touching to see how our forebears tried to manage the Age of Flight -- brave little Greek-columned terminals, with their brisk railroad-depot aura; silly homages to Versailles and its grandeur that could be appreciated only by air; Buck Rogers center-city circular skyports, teetering atop skyscrapers and land-gutting expressways, autogyros and biplanes flittering in all directions; and eventually, in a golden age that Gordon estimates lasted, oh, two weeks or so, the unleashed imagination of Idylwild/JFK, where real architects made real statements and real beauty. Then, of course, dawned the Age of Lead.

Gordon is generous with drawings and photos, and he makes a good effort to draw his subject out of as many airports, in as many countries, as possible. And for my money, he identified the most resonant themes. These include the stubborn difficulty of saying exactly what an airport is (portal to adventure? transit hub? amusement park? a machine for moving people?), a question intimately linked both to changing technology and the cost of flying. After all, if your flimsy Trimotor has to take off into the wind, an airport should be a big grassy circle. If your plane is a limousine for movie stars and rich businessmen, the terminal should look the part: classic lines, intimate waiting rooms, and don't forget lap robes for the fashionable ladies who get chilly at fourteen thousand feet. Maybe it should be a massive seaside terminal, since much of your traffic in those bygone days would have consisted of long-range flying boats. Somehow it also should put your city's name (or your name, if it happens to be Fiorello LaGuardia) up in lights. What should an airport be?

The author certainly won't pretend that the question has been answered. Every modern air traveler's angst testifies to that. Today's airport is built upon aviation's most durable theme: speed, always more speed, but it somehow feels all wrong. Gordon points out that even the earliest air adventurers felt that malaise, how even when you set off in high spirits to visit faraway people and exotic places, often you ended up writing about what you saw around the airport ... and sometimes you didn't even get off the plane. Commercial flight ceased to be a thrill many, many years ago. After a few times aloft, even our flapper forebears found it boring. In that view, today's airports match today's airplanes rather well: They're all an exercise in getting it over with as fast as possible. But somehow we wish it were done more beautifully.

I have my quibbles with the book. The author didn't deal thoroughly enough with aircraft technology. I would have liked to know how airplane interiors changed along with airport architecture, because surely legroom, amenities, and customer service evolved in tandem with the terminal experience. One of his major themes was how the Jet Age divided what came before with what followed. Yes, but I don't think it's inevitable that fast, cheap jets would lead to a dehumanizing travel experience -- or ugly buildings. Nor do I share the author's regrets about deregulation and its lower fares, hub system, and routing flexibility. It's hard to argue that if people would only pay higher fares, and accept government control of where planes flew and how often, travelers would benefit. In that sense I don't think Gordon was willing to face the truth that when something is lost (good architecture, a gracious approach to travel) something also was gained (mobility even for the non-rich, a globe-trotting freedom for the many that history has never seen before). Airport-as-bus-station is not as handsome to look at, but on a blunt level it gets the job done. Form follows function.

This book was published in 2004, and it should have done a much better job of wrestling with 9/11. It's confined to a very unsatisfying "epilogue" when it should have been the climax. Terrorism, after all, is what destroyed the last vestiges of the airport as a public place, a place of pleasant anticipation, of welcome, of innocent adventure. Fear has transformed airport engineering beyond recognition -- and tomorrow's airports will look nothing like the marvels of the '60s or the train depots of the '30s, or even the airports of the late twentieth century. The demands of security will finish the process of making the airport a sealed, insular, lonely, transient place, devoid of greetings or farewells.

Portal to somewhere else
In its early years, air travel was a thrill for the rich.Today, it is boring, necessary and commonplace.Through well-written stories and narrative history, this easy read gives a history of air travel from the perspective of the architectural structures that support it.As our understanding of air travel has changed, airport architecture has changed as well.There is now more glass and more security, painfully long passageways, more roadway than runway and, of course, acres of parking.One thing has not changed: the airport has always been a portal to somewhere else.Airports are the waiting rooms of adventure and freedom.Naked Airport gives insight into the challenge of making these waiting rooms less purgatorial.

I share the opinion of the other reviewer who says that the last part of the book is not as strong as the first.For example, there is no discussion of important recent developments such e-ticket kiosks and wireless networks.Even with this shortcoming, I still recommend this one.

Naked Airport- Good Book
As an Architect, I found Mr. Gordon's book to be a very accessible read.This is not a coffee table book with glossy photographs and difficult to comprehend architectural theory.Instead he gives a very clear overview of the development of the airport building type, much like The Architecture of Diplomacy by Jane Loeffler does.He uses simple and tasteful photographs and graphics pared with a well written history.I would give this book a high mark and recommend it for both architects and non-architect.Thank you, Alastair Gordon for a nicely written book.

Gregory Knoop
Oudens + Knoop Architects

Airport Reverie
Alastair Gordon is at his best describing airport construction from the mid-1930s WPA era through the early 1960s.At one point, in fact, he says, "It would be nice to imagine a brief period, a golden moment, somewhere between say 1958 and 1963 ... when advanced technology and American-style marketing produced a perfect, jet-setting age of travel."Instead of devoting energy to a new preservationist movement for airports built during that period (for example, Saarinen's TWA terminal at JFK), Gordon bathes in reverie from this point of the book all the way to the end.

We are doomed to anonymous, repetitive styles in airports, he says, and promptly contradicts this assertion with descriptions of attempts to humanize airports constructed or refitted within the past five years.I can understand him being in love with airports of the late 50s and early 60s, since I am too.But this should not preclude his being fair with the newest efforts to make airports wonderful today.And some of these efforts are really impressive.

Be fair, Alastair!We keep flying;new passenger planes are more comfortable and more efficient (like the 777).Airports are improving, too.Don't lose your sense of wonder and leave your readers dehydrated...the best is yet to come. ... Read more

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"If an airport is defined as ‘a place set aside primarily for the purpose of conducting regular, sustained flights,’ it can be safely said that America’s first airport was Huffman Prairie Flying Field, established by the Wright brothers eight miles outside of Dayton, Ohio, in 1904."—from Chapter 1, "Pick a Pasture"

Where once stretched little more than quiet open fields and gravel roads, the modern airport sits like an elaborate palace on the American landscape, steadfastly awaiting the arrival and departure of the traveling masses. The American Airport chronicles the history of America's airports from the Wright Brothers’ first flying field at Kitty Hawk, to the early barnstorming days, the nostalgic propliner age, the first jetports, and the post-millennium era’s multi-billion dollar airport revitalization schemes.

The American Airport covers nearly 50 major airports from the first century of flight. More than 180 images depict the ever-expanding terminals and growing runways, tracing the evolution of the airport along the leaps in technology and whims of architectural style. ... Read more

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The American Airport
For those who love airports and airplanes, this is a wonderful book to have. Simple, well-written, but unpretentious, it is loaded with lots of good period photographs and illustrations that cover the historical development of airports and the growth and transformations of the passenger airline industry in the United States. It would have been great if it were not limited to airports in this country, but had also included the develoment of airports all over the world. My suggestion to the author is to try just that: a second book devoted to international airports around the world and the development of the international airline system, particularly in Europe and Latin America, and, of course, including some of the exciting and ultra modern airports built in recent years accross the globe, especially in the Middle East and Asia. I'll be first in line to buy such a book! If you are an airport and airline enthusiast like me, I am sure you will very much enjoy The American Airport.

Fascinating History of the Evolution of the American Airport
From the first days of aviation--biplanes using dirt fields for landing and takeoff--to the modern state-of-the-art airports like the new one built in Denver--this book takes you on a historical and pictoral journey across the history of the American airport.

To most travelers, all airports are alike other than the variety of restaurants and shops contained within; most people never stop to look at the amazing architectural details of many of today's American airports.From the art deco style of Regan National's updated terminals to the Native-American inspired "tents" of Denver International to LAX's futuristic Theme Building, this book gives a great overview of the distinctive styles and the functionality of our airports today. ... Read more

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The new building of San Francisco International Airport offers a recognizable image to arriving and leaving passengers. It is organized over five levels, making it America's first mid-rise terminal. According to Craig Hartman, design architect with SOM, the terminal is founded upon the qualities of light and lightness. The building's position above several lanes of traffic required a 380-foot long span between the central columns - essentially the building is a bridge. ... Read more

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The role of an airport within the air transport system used to be largely incontestable. The system is now being shaped less by the concept of social service and more by market forces. Progressive liberalisation of air transport, together with trends to privatisation and globalisation are causing the roles of airports to change, for planning to become increasingly decentralised, and for the traffic to become more volatile. Airports are increasingly in competition for markets. Yet the markets are limited, and airport expansion is made difficult by environmental pressures that push towards sustainable transport, and the need to justify investment.

The book will examine these pressures in order to identify changes that are required to the airport planning process. The major issues to be discussed are: forecasting in an uncertain world; airport market share; airline network choices; political settings and their consequences; economic justification and viability; environmental impacts and their mitigation; cooperative planning; and physical planning challenges. The issues will be illuminated by case studies of representative airport systems: intercontinental gateways, metropolitan multi airport system, provincial and regional airports and developing country systems. The final section will bring together suggestions for ways in which the industry can move forward to a green and profitable future with an appropriate provision of new capacity. ... Read more

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Forget this poor piece of literature
I have seen, read and used a lot of other books in my work as an Airport Consultant. This book is so ridiculously topical that it amazes me someone took the time and effort to publish it! It's so expensive as well. Thisbook provides no answers at all to the problems surrounding strategicairport planning. The forecasting is weak and goes nowhere, the designparts have been done elsewhere and better than this book, the case studiesare an exercise in adhocracy. The first rule in airport planning is not touse airport systems in developing countries as examples for they're builtwith no attention whatsoever to what is appropriate or what is needed. Fora book that was supposed to help in planning airports, the authors have notplanned this book out well at all, there is no fluidity whatsoever. Icannot see this book helping any airport planners or enthusiasts anywhere,I am bitterly disappointed at having purchased this book. I expected usefulanswers. ... Read more

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Gateway to the West : Designing the Passenger Terminal Compl
WHAT A JOY TO SEE A PUBLISHED MASTERPIECE ...OF ONE OF THE WORLD'S FOREMOST CUTTING EDGE EXAMPLES OF CIVIC ARCHITECTURE.

Denver International Airport obviously derives it's superb design FORM, from it'scontext in the native locale and region of the majestic 14,000 foot highmountains of DENVER. "Gateway to the West" contains the bestpublished architectural photography anyone could expect.It could be arguedthat the informed reader would make comparisons or analogies of Denverairport with Sarinnen's Dulles Airport or his soaring TWA airport at JFK,in N.Y.

The success of the airport's execution by Master ARCHITECTSFentress & Bradburn (& winters) sets the standard for futureairports world-wide.

In fact we see that this internationally world-classArchitectural Firm has already accomplished a self-fullfilling prophecy, byaccepting several more world-flung Airport Design comissions in the MiddleEast and Far East, as well as in the U.S.

Architect Curtiss Fentress& his "gang" know what they're up to, in creating majesticuplifting roof structures to symbolize air travel.This publicationcements the architect' ideas into a philosophy of "FORM FOLLOWSVISION", rather than the more prosaic "FORM FOLLOWSFUNCTION", and the publisher deserves credit for devoting200+ pagesof how private expression (on the drawing boards) becomes public expression(to millions of passengers who arrive at "Gateway to the West" ). ... Read more

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Photographs by Reinier Gerritsen, Luk Kramer. ... Read more

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beautiful!
This book gives an amazing overview of the amsterdam airport Schiphol from the perspective of the people who come into contact with it most.These perspective inspirations come from passengers, employees, locals andpoliticians. ... Read more

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Kurokawa was commissioned to design the new Kuala Lumpur Airport as well as to create urban-design guidelines for the entire transportation complex.The project will include Kurokawa's main terminal, that, thanks to a generous use of glass, will forge a direct visual link between the rain forest and the terminal. ... Read more

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Airports are among the most complex and intensively used buildings of our time, designed for tens of millions of passengers a year and handling, largely unseen, huge quantities of baggage and freight. Speed and security are at a premium, and in the 1990s a much greater emphasis has been placed on fast public transport connections to nearby cities. As terminals grow to accommodate more passengers and planes, there is a constant debate as to how to reduce walking times to and from the planes. With many passengers also spending longer periods between flights there is a new emphasis on passenger comfort and a determined attempt to make airports attractive and exciting places to spend time in. Rarely has a single building type provided such opportunities for fine, adventurous architecture around the globe. The airport terminals of the 1990s are engineering wonders, filled with natural light from above and with glass walls providing panoramic views. Their majestic internal spaces are worthy successors to the great train sheds of nineteenth-century railway stations. Engineering and architecture play an equal role in creating vast, soaring internal spaces, exemplified by the ne w island airport at Kansai, Chek Lap Kok, and Seoul Inchon. Many buildings consciously seek to suggest metaphors for flight with soaring roofs and steelwork suggestive of fuselages or even the struts of early biplanes. While some terminals carry forward the twentieth-century tradition of a universal international modern style, others seek to give architecture a sense of place. The race to build spans the globe from San Francisco and Vancouver to Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur. This book illustrates the latest work of leading world architects such as Kisho Kurokawa, Norman Foster, Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers and SOM. It charts the phenomenal success of specialist builders in the field, such as the worldwide practice of Aéroports de Paris, and examines the new generation of European terminals. Other titles in the series include: Museum Builders Theatre Builders Library Builders Church Builders Monument Builders Future titles include: Office Builders University Builders Bank BuildersAmazon.com Review
Airports are too often a necessary evil of long-distance travel. But at their best, they are to our era what the great urban railway stations were to theirs: grand, naturally lit spaces where architecture and bold structural engineering merge to create an uplifting experience that transcends mere functional accommodation. Some readers may have experienced some of these choice buildings while in transit: Helmut Jahn's terminals at Chicago's O'Hare Airport, Renzo Piano's sensuously undulating Kansai Airport near Osaka, Curt Fentress's tent-topped Denver terminal, Norman Foster's space-framed Stansted Airport serving London, or Cesar Pelli's soaring, art-filled Washington National Airport. Those who haven't can do some armchair traveling with this book.

Practitioners and students will find functional analysis as well as visual stimulus. While not a how-to book, Airport Builders goes beyond esthetics to deal with issues of organization, use, and structure. It opens with an essay examining new design directions (but not the full history of this 70-year-old building type), and then presents a portfolio of 46 architecturally advanced air terminals built in or designed for 17 countries over the last decade or so. The book is oversized, and its 230 pages contain several hundred illustrations in the form of well-reproduced color photos, architectural drawings, and models. --John Pastier ... Read more

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Excellent
I was looking for a decent airport architecture publication, and I found Airport Builders to be an informative and beautiful book.It contains a large collection of recent and future airport construction projects (and their respective design firms) from all around the world, and covers each in exquisite detail.Some of the airports included are Denver International, Chek Lap Kok, Kansai International, Charles De Gaulle, and London Stansted, among many others.Almost all of the projects higlighted include technical schematics and renderings.Large color photos are also abundant.Anyone with an interest in commercial aviation or airport architecure should definitely give this a look.

Excellent, well-thought-out book on modern airport projects
As the architecture correspondent for The Times (London), author Marcus Binney travels the world in search of new directions in design and important building achievements."Airport Builders" stands as a fine compilation of the most impressive airport-related projects to come out of architects' shops in the 1990's.

The beginning section of the book presents a discussion of the primary considerations in airport design today (number of floors, terminals and satellites; carparking, landscaping, etc.) which is thankfully neither ponderous nor overly casual.Following are overviews of 46 airport and terminal projects, with interesting and easy-to-understand descriptions of the problems overcome in each design process, structural considerations and noteworthy aesthetic features for each airport.

This is a book written for architects by an architect, as evidenced by the wealth of plans, elevations, model views, artist renderings and computer-generated perspectives.Each airport/terminal project takes up between two and ten pages (Denver International gets the most), including text, photos and illustrations.The most superb photographs are the large color ones which show innovative roof and ceiling concepts, exterior perspectives, and exquisite interior spaces formed by glass and structural elements.

Aside from being enjoyable to read, the book is well-constructed and printed on quality paper.

Refreshing
This book is a refreshing change to the typical airport-architecture text.The days of airports being uninspiring transport interchanges are numbered, with this book demonstrating full-page glossy photos of 40 ormore of the world's most recent developments including Chek Lap Kok andKansai. Good photography and clearly written, it was a pleasure to read.

Outstanding
As a serious airport architecture enthusiast, this book is about as good as you'll find. Superb drawings, photographs and models and very good text. A real valuable addition to your library! ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tyler Pounds Regional Airport (IATA: TYR, ICAO: KTYR) is an airport located six miles west of Tyler, Texas (USA). The airport currently has three paved runways. In recent years, the airport has been expanding in order to meet goals outlined within "The Tyler Master Plan." On August 17, 2002, the airport opened a new terminal building, which doubled the available space. Tyler Pounds Regional is a large center for General Aviation. The airport has three public parking lots for General Aviation arrivals.American Eagle and Continental Connection currently offer service to and from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, in Dallas, and George Bush Intercontinental Airport, in Houston. As of fall 2008, American Eagle operates Embraer ERJ 145 to Dallas-Fort Worth while Continental Connection continues to operate Saab 340B to George Bush Intercontinental Airport. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Victor van der Chijs (Ede, September 1, 1960) is Managing Partner of architecture and design office OMA: Office for Metropolitan Architecture founded by Rem Koolhaas, based in Rotterdam, New York, Beijing and Hong Kong. Next to the day-to-day responsibility for OMA's operations, he is responsible for business development and expanding and professionalizing OMA's activities. Van der Chijs joined OMA in early 2005. Since then, OMA and its think-tank AMO tripled in size while maintaining strict creative standards. ... Read more

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Airports are not just airports any more. Forgoing their status as simple traffic machines, airports can rightly be considered as decisive for the transformation of the metropolitan area. Propelled by a series of strategic investments, they have assumed a key position in High Speed Train and railway networks, a position until recently reserved for central stations alone. Being the undisputed interfaces of entire European regions, airports become centres of activity within them, new regional development poles, or simply "airport cities". But the self-confidence with which many airport operators expand the scope of their activities in relation to these new opportunities is not yet reflected in airport planning. Most plans for airport cities are still designed according to the logic of an efficient airport infrastructure. This book collates and deciphers the evidence of these processes, based on experience in Europe's major airport regions. It presents a vision of the influence of airports in rearranging landside traffic networks and in reorganising the territory of the metropolitan area.And it develops a new framework for airport planning, one that allows for participation in the shaping of this highly dynamic motor of urban development. ... Read more

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From airport to aiport city
Michael & Mathis Güller

Airports are not just airports any more. Forgoing their status as simple traffic machines, airports can rightly be considered as decisive for the transformation of the metropolitan area. Propelled by a series of strategic investments, they have assumed a key position in High Speed Train and railway networks, a position until recently reserved for central stations alone. Being the undisputed interfaces of entire European regions, airports become centres of activity within them, new regional development poles, or simply "airport cities". But the self-confidence with which many airport operators expand the scope of their activities in relation to these new opportunities is not yet reflected in airport planning. Most plans for airport cities are still designed according to the logic of an efficient airport infrastructure.

This book collates and deciphers the evidence of these processes, based on experience in Europe's major airport regions. It presents a vision of the influence of airports in rearranging landside traffic networks and in reorganising the territory of the metropolitan area. And it develops a new framework for airport planning, one that allows for participation in the shaping of this highly dynamic motor of urban development.

The book opens with an introduction by Jack Short, Secretary General of the European Conference of Ministers of Transport. He has brought urban transport and land use issues to the forefront of debate in this Think Tank.

Güller Güller is a young company of architects and urbanists based in both Rotterdam and Zurich. It proposes a new approach to research, planning and urban design projects that explore the impact of large-scale infrastructures -ports, airports or public transport nodes-on contemporary cities

192 pp
18 x 18 cm
Paperback
english
ISBN: 978-84-252-1905-4
Spanish edition also available

Index of contents of:
From airport to aiport city - Michael & Mathis Güller

Contents

Foreword by Jordi Julià Sort and Bob Verburg 6
Introduction by Jack Short 7

From airport to airport city 11
1. New cities at the regional and global interface 23
2. Airport systems for metropolitan areas 37
3. A new airport image 47
4. From airport to airport city 59
5. Light rail and "Fastway" 75
6. Airport hardware 85
7. The downtown airport 93
8. The domain of the airport 109
9. Airport interchange 123
10. Opportunities in the airport area 141
11. A city without territory 159
12. An unusual planning task 177

Glossary and abbreviations 184
Bibliography 186
Credits 188
Acknowledgments 189
Biography 190

Very Groovy Book!
This is an example of perhaps the coolest kind of geo-architect-planner book.Nice euro-sleek format, not too many unneeded words to get in the way of the fantastic graphics.The book delves into the phenomon of modern mega-airports turning into self-sufficient job centers "cities".Includes data on modal-split, public and private development, runway layout and airport history for 10 major European airports.The maps and diagrams are simple and very compelling. ... Read more

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First published in 1979, Airport Engineering by Ashford and Wright, has become a classic textbook in the education of airport engineers and transportation planners.  Over the past twenty years, construction of new airports in the US has waned as construction abroad boomed.  This trend  resulted in the formation of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) which increasingly serves to codify civil aviation outside the US.  This new edition if Airport Engineering will respond to this shift in the growth of airports globally, while still providing the best practices and tested fundamentals that have made the book successful for over 30 years. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Saibai Island Airport (IATA: SBR, ICAO: YSII) is an airport in Saibai Island, Queensland, Australia. Saibai Island (9°24′S 142°41′E / 9.4°S 142.683°E / -9.4; 142.683Coordinates: 9°24′S 142°41′E / 9.4°S 142.683°E / -9.4; 142.683) is one of the Torres Strait Islands in Australia, between the Australian mainland and the island of New Guinea. Saibai is a fairly large low-lying island only 4 km from the Papua New Guinea mainland. Close north is uninhabited Kauamag Island, separated from Saibai by a channel that is seven kilometers long, between 180 and 650 meters wide, and nearly blocked at its east end. The main village of Saibai, in the northwest, has a population of 171. The second village, Churum [Surum White Sand], in the southwest, numbers 128. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yasser Arafat International Airport (Arabic: مطار ياسر عرفات الدولي‎ Maṭār Yāsir 'Arafāt ad-Dawli) (IATA: GZA, ICAO: LVGZ), formerly Gaza International Airport and Dahaniya International Airport, is located in the Gaza Strip, in Rafah close to the Egyptian border. It is owned, and was operated, by the Palestinian Authority, and served as the home airport for Palestinian Airlines. The airport was able to handle 700,000 passengers per year and operated 24 hours and 364 days a year (closed on Yom Kippur). The airport opened in 1998, but it closed in 2001 after being severely damaged by Israeli military forces. The airport has one runway of 3080 m x 60 m, but it is no longer operational due to extensive damage to the north and middle sections of the runway by the Israeli Defence Forces. Some of the taxiways are damaged, but the apron did not sustain heavy damage. ... Read more