Life in the air : surviving the new culture of air travel /
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| Author / Creator: | Gottdiener, Mark. |
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| Imprint: | Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2000. |
| Description: | vii, 217 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4464303 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Air Travel as a Simple Fact of Life
- Pt. 1. The Airport
- 2. The Terminal as Transition Space and Gateway
- 3. The Airport as Shopping Mall
- 4. The Airport as City and Community
- 5. Eroticism and the Airport
- 6. Boredom, Delays, Cancellations
- Pt. 2. Nowhere Architecture
- 7. Place and Placelessness
- 8. Airport Architecture: Creating a Sense of Place
- 9. The Airport Sign System
- 10. Social Activities within Terminals
- Pt. 3. Life in the Air
- 11. Frequent Flying: What Fliers Want
- 12. Airplane Etiquette: Behavior in the Air
- 13. Drunks
- 14. Laughs
- 15. Meals
- 16. Crashes and Air Safety
- 17. Fear of Flying
- 18. New Horrors
- 19. Medical Emergencies
- 20. Dehydration
- 21. Jetlag: Flying and Folk Religion
- Pt. 4. The Compression of Space and Time
- 22. Industrial and Corporate Changes
- 23. The Need for Air Travel
- 24. Experiencing Space/Time Compression
- 25. Bi-coastalism and the Fear of Flying
- 26. Bi-coastalism Disorientation and Decompression
- 27. Living in the Air: How People Do It
- Pt. 5. The Airline Business: Growing Concerns
- 28. The Emergence of Transactional Spaces
- 29. Capitalism and the Path to Deregulation
- 30. Hubs, Spokes and Deregulation
- 31. Discount Carriers
- 32. Crazy Fares
- 33. When Lives Were Lost Due to Deregulation
- 34. Labor Costs and Contentious Employer-Employee Relations
- 35. Complaints: Overcrowding, Overbooking, and Increasing Consumer Discontent
- 36. The Future of Deregulation
- Pt. 6. Epilogue: The Most Important Thing
- 37. Flying and the Future.