Description
This book is not just about air travel. It is about the emergent social world of flying. It concerns air space and behavior in the air the way someone else might look at cities and street behavior. Economic, political, and cultural aspects are all considered. . . . Airports have now become specific places in their own right that, in a certain sense, now. . . are very much like cities.
Frequent flying also has produced its very own culture. Rules of behavior are subscribed to in the air. Unique behaviors at terminals and in the passenger cabin have emerged that contrast with life on the ground. In chapters below I explore these interesting aspects of etiquette, eroticism, and bi-coastalism, a human activity that is only possible because of our present society's evolution. . . . Only now have we begun to appreciate our emergent global culture. The world is shrinking just as the opportunities for travel expand.
Table of Contents
Part 2 The Airport
Chapter 3 The Terminal as Transition Space and Gateway
Chapter 4 The Airport as Shopping Mall
Chapter 5 The Airport as City and Community
Chapter 6 Eroticism and the Airport
Chapter 7 Boredom, Delays, Cancellations
Part 8 Nowhere Architecture
Chapter 9 Place and Placelessness
Chapter 10 Airport Architecture: Creating a Sense of Place
Chapter 11 The Airport Sign System
Chapter 12 Social Activities within Terminals
Part 13 Life in the Air
Chapter 14 Frequent Flying: What Fliers Want
Chapter 15 Airplane Etiquette: Behavior in the Air
Chapter 16 Drunks
Chapter 17 Laughs
Chapter 18 Meals
Chapter 19 Crashes and Air Safety
Chapter 20 Fear of Flying
Chapter 21 New Horrors
Chapter 22 Medical Emergencies
Chapter 23 Dehydration
Chapter 24 Jet Lag: Flying and Folk Religion
Part 25 The Compression of Space and Time
Chapter 26 Industrial and Corporate Changes
Chapter 27 The Need for Air Travel
Chapter 28 Experiencing Space/Time Compression
Chapter 29 Bi-Coastalism and the Fear of Flying
Chapter 30 Bi-Coastalism: Disorientation and Decompression
Chapter 31 Living in the Air: How People Do It
Part 32 The Airline Business: Growing Concerns
Chapter 33 The Emergence of Transactional Spaces
Chapter 34 Capitalism and the Path to Deregulation
Chapter 35 Hubs, Spokes, and Deregulation
Chapter 36 Discount Carriers
Chapter 37 Crazy Fares
Chapter 38 When Lives Were Lost due to Deregulation
Chapter 39 Labor Costs and Contentious Employer-Employee Relations
Chapter 40 Complaints: Overcrowding, Overbooking, and Delays
Chapter 41 The Future of Deregulation
Part 42 Epilogue:The Most Important Thing
Chapter 43 Flying and the Future
Chapter 44 References
Product details
| Published | 15 Jul 2002 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 224 |
| ISBN | 9780585379593 |
| Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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