Author: Jamaica Bay Environmental Study GroupPublisher:
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Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Jamaica Bay and Kennedy Airport: a Multidisciplinary Environmental Study
Author: Jamaica Bay Environmental Study GroupPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Public Hearings on Noise Abatement and Control
Author: United States. Office of Noise Abatement and ControlPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Noise control
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
Public Hearings on Noise Abatement and Control: Technology and economics of noise control; National programs and their relations with state and local programs
Author: United States. Office of Noise Abatement and ControlPublisher:
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Category : Noise control
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
The Metropolitan Airport
Author: Nicholas Dagen BloomPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812291646
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
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 advanced airfields. Almost from the start, however, environmental activists in surrounding neighborhoods and suburbs clashed with the Port Authority. These fierce battles in the long term restricted growth and, compounded by lackluster management and planning, diminished JFK's status and reputation. Yet the airport remained a key contributor to metropolitan vitality: New Yorkers bound for adventure and business still boarded planes headed to distant corners of the globe, billions of tourists and immigrants came and went, and mammoth air cargo facilities bolstered the region's commerce. In The Metropolitan Airport, Nicholas Dagen Bloom chronicles the untold story of JFK International's complicated and turbulent relationship with the New York City metropolitan region. In spite of its reputation for snarled traffic, epic delays, endless construction, and abrasive employees, the airport was a key player in shifting patterns of labor, transportation, and residence; the airport both encouraged and benefited from the dispersion of population and economic activity to the outer boroughs and suburbs. As Bloom shows, airports like JFK are vibrant parts of their cities and powerfully influence urban development. The Metropolitan Airport is an indispensable book for those who wish to understand the revolutionary impact of airports on the modern American city.
Selected Water Resources Abstracts
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Gateway Area Proposals
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on National Parks and RecreationPublisher:
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Category : Gateway National Recreation Area (Agency : U.S.)
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Gateway Area Proposals
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Technology and economics of noise control; National programs and their relations with state and local programs
Author: United States. Office of Noise Abatement and ControlPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Noise control
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement: Appendices
Author: United States. Department of the Air ForcePublisher:
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Category : Air bases
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
Laws and Regulatory Schemes for Noise Abatement
Author: George Washington UniversityPublisher:
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Category : Environmental law
Languages : en
Pages : 636
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