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Naked airport: a cultural history of the world's most revolutionary structure

Naked airport: a cultural history of the world's most revolutionary structure Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change Vol. 10, No. 3, September 2012, 276–284 BOOK REVIEWS Naked airport: a cultural history of the world’s most revolutionary structure, Alastair Gordon, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2008 (first published New York, Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, Ltd., 2004), 308 pp., £11.50, ISBN- 13:978-0-226-30456-4 (paper), ISBN-10: 0-226-30456-6 (paper) Literature about airports is not rare. The airport is the subject of many articles, books and book chapters. In general, the perspective of these existing publications is architectural, which means that there is a lot of information about the infrastructural organization of the terminal and its constructive elements. What makes Alastair Gordon’s Naked airport stand out, is that he treats airport design as part of a whole range of visual and textual representations of flying. He ‘reads’ airport design and its twentieth-century development as an expression of the societal and emotional meaning of flying at a certain time and place. In order to do this, he includes the analysis of ‘ego’ documents such as novels, movies and other textual and visual material. That, and the fact that Gordon is a skilled storyteller, makes this book highly enjoyable. In the early days of flying, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change Taylor & Francis

Naked airport: a cultural history of the world's most revolutionary structure

Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change , Volume 10 (3): 4 – Sep 1, 2012
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Taylor & Francis
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Copyright Patricia van Ulzen
ISSN
1747-7654
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1476-6825
DOI
10.1080/14766825.2012.706065
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Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change Vol. 10, No. 3, September 2012, 276–284 BOOK REVIEWS Naked airport: a cultural history of the world’s most revolutionary structure, Alastair Gordon, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2008 (first published New York, Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, Ltd., 2004), 308 pp., £11.50, ISBN- 13:978-0-226-30456-4 (paper), ISBN-10: 0-226-30456-6 (paper) Literature about airports is not rare. The airport is the subject of many articles, books and book chapters. In general, the perspective of these existing publications is architectural, which means that there is a lot of information about the infrastructural organization of the terminal and its constructive elements. What makes Alastair Gordon’s Naked airport stand out, is that he treats airport design as part of a whole range of visual and textual representations of flying. He ‘reads’ airport design and its twentieth-century development as an expression of the societal and emotional meaning of flying at a certain time and place. In order to do this, he includes the analysis of ‘ego’ documents such as novels, movies and other textual and visual material. That, and the fact that Gordon is a skilled storyteller, makes this book highly enjoyable. In the early days of flying,

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Published: Sep 1, 2012

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