Learning from Airport's History

Nathalie Roseau (1, 2)

1 LATTS - Laboratoire Techniques, Territoires et Sociétés
2 ENPC - École des Ponts ParisTech

In the last two decades many researchers have taken diverse approaches to the study of airports. The airport was long considered a topic for specialists and designers, or admired as a monument celebrating the spectacle of the aeromobility—from early aeronautical shows to later Sunday excursions to the huge observation terraces overlooking the airfield. Today the airport as a critical issue permeates the literature at various angles. Why such a profusion and what do these works offer the history of mobility?

Mots clés: Non précisé

Domaines: Architecture, aménagement de l'espace; Histoire

Nathalie Roseau. Learning from Airport's History. Mobility in History, 2012, 4 (1), ⟨10.3167/mih.2013.040110⟩. ⟨hal-00812094⟩