America's Airports
Subtitle: Airfield Development, 1918-1947 (Centennial of Flight Series, 1)
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: October 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781585441303
Subjects: Aerospace & air transport industries; American history: from c 1900 -; 20th century; History; Air Transportation; Transportation; USA; Aviation - Commercial; Aviation - History; Airports; Design and construction; United States; Urban renewal
Description: "Chicago-O'Hare, DFW, LAX, New York-La Guardia. Across the country, Americans take for granted the convenience of air flight from one city to another. The federal role in managing air traffic and the cooperative corporate planning of major airlines mask to some degree the fact that those airports are not jointly owned or managed, but rather are local public responsibilities.".

"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.