The Metropolitan Airport: JFK International and Modern New York
(Part of the American Business, Politics, and Society Series)
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0812247418
ISBN13:9780812247411
Release Date:September 2015
Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press
Length:248 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"
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