When Runways Move But People Don’t: The O’Hare Modernization Program and the Relative Immobilities of Air Travel

This paper draws on Urry’s four interconnected senses of mobility to argue that the O’Hare Modernization Project, carefully framed as moving runways rather than expanding O’Hare International Airport, has differentially affected the mobilities of people and land uses in addition to airport boundaries and noise, and that work on aeromobilities has not sufficiently considered spaces on the ground beyond airport borders. The relative immobility of the built environment around a major piece of infrastructure such as O’Hare has significant material consequences when the airport itself becomes mobile, reminding us of the politics inherent to the production of mobility systems and cities.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2013.808050
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/17450101
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission from Taylor and Francis.
• Authors:
  • Cidell, Julie
• Publication Date: 2013-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 528-541
• Serial:
  • Mobilities
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISSN: 1745-0101
  • EISSN: 1745-011X
  • Serial URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rmob20

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Airport runways; Airports; Built environment; Infrastructure; Land use planning; Mobility; Modernization
• Identifier Terms: Chicago O'Hare International Airport
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Planning and Forecasting; Terminals and Facilities; I20: Design and Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01499203
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 21 2013 9:14AM