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Why do we love and hate airports at the same time? Have you been a
victim of tiresome walks, congestion, long lines, invasive
pat-downs, eternal delays and so on? Perhaps no other technological
system has been challenged by continuously changing paradigms like
airports. Think a minute on rail stations; think of how successful
are the rail networks of the world in connecting nations, with just
minimum security measures. Why aviation and airports are so
radically different in this regard? In order to answer those
questions the author embarks on a thorough revision of airport
history and airport planning that in the end builds up a new theory
about how airports are formed from the outset. Within its journey
from the early airfield to the newest hubs of today, Dr. Marquez
identifies for the first time the Landside-Airside boundary as the
single most important feature that shapes an airport. In this
sense, his finding challenges the "historical linearity" that,
until today, used to explain a century of airports. From both an
analytical and theoretical S&TS stance, Dr. Marquez assures
that it is only when airports needed to be fully reinvented
(LaGuardia, Dulles and Tampa) when they become transparent and we
may be able to understand their lack of technological stability.
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