Blue Skies and Dollar Signs: Early Airports and the Promise of Economic Growth

This paper reviews the history of early aviation in the 1920s and its impact on the ground. Many cities envisioned that building airports would provide an easy and inexpensive opportunity for economic advancement. By the end of the decade, the initial excitement and enthusiasm transitioned to the realization that the responsibility of providing airport infrastructure and ground transportation required considerable municipal management and planning.

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• Authors:
  • Landry, Michael
  • Edwards, Sandra
• Publication Date: 2014

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 97-109
• Serial:
  • Journal of Transportation Law, Logistics and Policy
  • Volume: 81
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Association for Transportation Law, Logistics and Policy
  • ISSN: 1078-5906
  • Serial URL: http://www.atlp.org/journal.html

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Airport ground transportation; Airports; City government; City planning; Economic development; Economic growth; Economic impacts; History
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Economics; History; Terminals and Facilities; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01540023
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 9 2014 9:01AM