In much the same way that views of the Earth from the Apollo
missions in the late 1960s and early 1970s led indirectly to the
inauguration of Earth Day and the modern environmental movement,
the dawn of aviation ushered in a radically new way for architects,
landscape designers, urban planners, geographers, and
archaeologists to look at cities and landscapes. As icons of
modernity, airports facilitated the development of a global economy
during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, reshaping
the way people thought about the world around them. Professionals
of the built environment awoke to the possibilities offered by the
airports themselves as sites of design and by the electrifying new
aerial perspective on landscape.
In "Flights of Imagination, " Sonja Dumpelmann follows the
evolution of airports from their conceptualization as a landscape
and a city to modern-day plans to turn decommissioned airports into
public urban parks. The author discusses landscape design and
planning activities that were motivated, legitimized, and
facilitated by the aerial view. She also shows how viewing the
Earth from above redirected attention to bodily experience on the
ground and illustrates how design professionals understood the
aerial view as simultaneously abstract and experiential, detailed
and contextual, harmful and essential. Along the way, Dumpelmann
traces this multiple dialectic from the 1920s to the land
camouflage activities during World War II, and from the
environmental and landscape planning initiatives of the 1960s
through today.
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