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The Metropolitan Airport: JFK International and Modern New York: American Business, Politics, and Society

Autor Nicholas Dagen Bloom
en Limba Engleză Hardback – aug 2015

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."

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780812247411
ISBN-10: 0812247418
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 160 x 234 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: University of Pennsylvania Press
Seria American Business, Politics, and Society