A - Airports

A - Airports
Author: British Library
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2012-05-21
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 3111725944

Ultimate Book of Airplanes and Airports

Ultimate Book of Airplanes and Airports
Author: Sophie Bordet-Petillon
Publisher: Twirl
Total Pages: 18
Release: 2017-10-24
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN:

The Ultimate series is a worldwide success because it offers readers an intriguing close-up view of their subject with lots of opportunity for hands-on interaction with flaps, tabs, pop-ups, and more! What better subject than airplanes and airports, endlessly fascinating to children of all ages—from the detailed instruments of a Boeing 747 cockpit to the mysterious innards of a baggage carousel, The Ultimate Book of Airports delivers absorbing information and hours of fun. It's the perfect book to prepare young readers for a first flight!

Airports

Airports
Author: Hugh Pearman
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2004
Genre: Airport buildings
ISBN: 1856693562

Since their emergence at the start of the 20th century, airports have become one of the most distinctive and important of architectural building types. Often used to symbolize progress, freedom and trade, they offer architects the chance to design on a grand scale. At the beginning of the 21st century, airports are experiencing a new and exciting renaissance as they adapt and evolve into a new type of building; one that is complete, adaptable and catering to a new range of demands. As passengers are held in airports far longer than they used to be, they have also now become destinations in their own right. Airports celebrates the most important airport designs in the world. Beginning with an exploration of the first structures of aviation, and early designs such as the Berlin Tempelhof, the book explores the key airports of the century up to the present day, including Eero Saarinen's TWA Terminal in New York, Renzo Piano's Kansai Airport and Norman Foster's Chek Lap Kok in Hong Kong.

Tom Hegen

Tom Hegen
Author:
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2020-10-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9783775748513

Airports in lockdown: still lifes from a pandemic by an acclaimed aerial photographer German photographer Tom Hegen (born 1991), internationally for with his aerial photographs, here documents Germany's airports at the height of 2020's lockdown, depicting these abandoned zones with geometric clarity.

America's Amazing Airports

America's Amazing Airports
Author: Penny Rafferty Hamilton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2019-10-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9781699237656

America's Amazing Airports captures the magic and history of our airports. Archival and contemporary photographs reveal airports outside and inside. An easy read for all ages.

America's Airports

America's Airports
Author: Janet Rose Daly Bednarek
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781585441303

"In this history of the places that travelers in cities across America call "the" airport, Janet R. Daly Bednarek traces the evolving relationship between cities and their airports during the crucial formative years of 1917-47."--BOOK JACKET.

Playtown

Playtown
Author: Roger Priddy
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 18
Release: 2014-08-26
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0312517378

With over 70 flaps to lift, readers will discover everything about Playtown and who lives there.

How Airports Work

How Airports Work
Author: Clive Gifford
Publisher: Lonely Planet Kids
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2018-09-14
Genre: Airplanes
ISBN: 9781787012929

Where does luggage go after check in? What happens in the control tower? How do planes actually fly? This interactive, lift-the-flap book takes you behind-the-scenes to uncover the hidden secrets of the airport - from a peek inside the cockpit to the hustle and bustle of departures. In this follow-up to How Cities Work, we explore the earliest airports through to today's giant transport hubs and what airports could look like in the future. Packed with amazing facts and illustrations from James Gulliver Hancock, it'll surprise and delight readers young and old, ensuring they never look at air travel in the same way again. Created in consultation with Tom Cornell, VP Airspace / Airfields, Americas at Landrum & Brown. Contents include: Airports Through the Ages The Great Get-to-the-Airport Race Find Your Way Round the Airport The Maintenance Hangar In the Terminal Inside an Aircraft The Control Tower Sees All Preparing Planes Ship That Cargo The Incredible Luggage Journey Airports of the Future About Lonely Planet Kids: Come explore! Let's start an adventure. Lonely Planet Kids excites and educates children about the amazing world around them. Combining astonishing facts, quirky humour and eye-catching imagery, we ignite their curiosity and encourage them to discover more about our planet. Every book draws on our huge team of global experts to help share our continual fascination with what makes the world such a diverse and magnificent place - inspiring children at home and in school.

Naked Airport

Naked Airport
Author: Alastair Gordon
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2014-04-22
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1466869119

The first full cultural history of the ultimate modern structure: the airport, revealed as never before ... Since its origins in the muddy fields of flying machines, the airport has arguably become one of the defining institutions of modern life. In Naked Airport, critic Alastair Gordon ranges from global geopolitics to action movies to the daily commute, showing how airports have changed our sense of time, distance, travel, style, and even the way cities are built and business is done. Gordon introduces the people who shaped this place of sudden transportation: pilots like Charles Lindberg, architects like Eero Saarinen, politicians like Fiorello La Guardia, and Hitler, who built Berlin's Tempelhof as a showcase for Fascist power. He describes the airport's futuristic contributions, such as credit cards, in the form of fly-now-pay-later schemes, and he charts its shift in popular perception, from glamorous to infuriating. Finally, he analyzes the airport's function in war and peace—its gatekeeper role controlling immigration, its appeal to revolutionaries since the hijackings of the 1960s, and its new frontline position in the struggle against terror. Compelling and accessible, Naked Airport is an original history of a long-neglected yet central creation of modern reality and imagination.