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Book SynopsisFrom global politics to action movies to the daily commute, this title shows how the airport has changed our sense of time, distance, and style, and ultimately the way cities are built and business is done. It introduces the people who shaped and were shaped by this place of sudden transition.
Trade Review"This charming history documents why airports have always been such intriguing places. Gordon wittily deconstructs air terminal architecture.... Here is a book with more than enough quirky details to last a long layover." - People "[A] splendid cultural history." - Atlantic Monthly "Gordon, an architecture and design critic, tells his story well, bringing to life some of the main characters and highlighting some of the important issues concerning urbanism and airports." - Michael Roth, San Francisco Chronicle "Gordon provides a truly compelling account of how airports had over the course of three-quarters of a century become the locus of not only modern dreams but postmodern nightmares as well. Don't leave home without it." - Terence Riley, director of the Miami Art Museum "The genius of Naked Airport is its portrayal of how these way stations have changed from the muddy airfields of the 1920s to their heyday in the '60s and beyond.... In charting this evolution, Gordon has written the ideal book to bring with you on a long nonstop flight." - Time Out New York "[An] interesting, informative book." - Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World"
