The Metropolitan Airport : JFK International and Modern New York / Nicholas Dagen Bloom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bloom, Nicholas Dagen, Author.

Series:

American business, politics, and society.

American Business, Politics, and Society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

John F. Kennedy International Airport--History.

John F. Kennedy International Airport.

International airports--New York (State)--New York--History.

International airports.

City planning--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

City planning.

Regional planning--New York (State)--New York Metropolitan Area--History--20th century.

Regional planning.

New York Metropolitan Area--History--20th century.

New York Metropolitan Area.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (188 pages) : illustrations, photographs.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1. From Idlewild to New York International

Chapter 2. Terminal City’s Suburban Form

Chapter 3. How the Other Half Waits

Chapter 4. Neighborhood Battles

Chapter 5. Decline and Disorder

Chapter 6. Resilience of a Global Hub

Chapter 7. Reappraisal

Notes

Index

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9780812291643

0812291646

OCLC:

957504976