Research Catalog

Title

Airport urbanism : infrastructure and mobility in Asia / Max Hirsh.

Author

Hirsh, Max

Publication

Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]

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Description

x, 201 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 26 cm

Summary

"A really smart & accessible look at how everyday practices play out in the architecture of and around airports in Asia. Looks at how the recent rise of air mobility is fueled by and also fuels the current Asia economic boom. Not just looking at airports but also the informal, chaotic-seeming transportation systems that have evolved to service them"--

Subjects

• International travel > Social aspects > Asia
• International travel > Economic aspects > Asia
• Air travel > Economic aspects > Asia
• Airports > Asia
• Transportation > Planning
• Transportation > Asia > Planning
• Asia
• Air travel > Social aspects > Asia
• International airports > Asia
• City planning > Asia

Note

• "In Airport Urbanism, Max Hirsch undertakes an unprecedented study of airport infrastructure in five Asia cities: Bangkok, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Kuala Lumpur, and Singapore. He examines the exponential increase in international air traffic and its implications for the planning and design of the contemporary city. By investigating the low-cost, informal, and transborder transport systems used by new members of the flying public (such as migrant workers, retirees, and Asia's emerging middle class), he uncovers an architecture of incipient global mobility that has been inconspicuously inserted into places not typically associated with the infrastructure of international air travel"--Page 4 of cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-191) and index.

Contents

Introduction: what is airport urbanism? -- Parallel lines -- Transborder infrastructure -- Special zones -- Cheap tickets -- Conclusion: mobility, migration, and the future Asian city.

ISBN

• 9780816696093
• 0816696098
• 9780816696109
• 0816696101

LCCN

• 2015036914
• 40025919366

OCLC

• ocn921995216
• 921995216
• SCSB-5847388

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries