The Metropolitan Airport: JFK International and Modern New York

by Nicholas Dagen Bloom

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"