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Victor Marquez LANDSIDE Why airports are the way they are AIRSIDE Landside | Airside Victor Marquez Landside | Airside Why Airports Are the Way They Are Victor Marquez Mexico City, Mexico ISBN 978-981-13-3361-3 ISBN 978-981-13-3362-0 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3362-0 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018965780 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. 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The registered company address is: 152 Beach Road, #21-01/04 Gateway East, Singapore 189721, Singapore To my mother and In memory of Hans Meyer + Preface: Current Definitions of the Landside and Airside The Collins English Dictionary (“Landside, Airside,” 2003) defines the terms “landside” and “airside” succinctly: “Landside” (noun) is the part of an airport farthest from the aircraft, the boundary of which is the security check, customs, passport control, and so forth; “Airside,” on the contrary, is the part of an airport nearest the aircraft, the boundary of which is the security check, customs, passport control, and so on. Both definitions help to show that only an austere idea exists of what these terms mean, and that little research has been done to define them more accurately. In the general civil engineering and architecture lexicon, airside represents buildings and facilities on the side of the planes, and landside refers to the same but on the side of passengers, a definition similar to the one mentioned above. For the more specialized jargon of airport designers, engineers, and specialists, airports should be divided into two control sectors: the landside, referring to all areas allowing the free flow of passengers, visitors, and vehicles; the airside, areas restricted vii viii Preface: Current Definitions of the Landside and Airside for the sole use of authorized personnel, aircrafts, and service vehicles.1 However, in terms of airport planning, security, and regulatory codes, the landside–airside boundary represents the different frontiers between the “sterile” and the “non-sterile” zones, a through area where passengers move along “filters” in order to be “cleared” and “segregated.” Mexico City, Mexico Victor Marquez Reference Evans, G. (2006). Airport engineering: New Denver Airport, Colorado. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. 1 Facilities at airports are generally described as either airside, which commences at the secured boundary between terminal and apron and extends to the runway and to facilities beyond, such as navigational or remote air-traffic-control emplacements; or landside, which includes the termi- nal, cargo-processing, and land-vehicle approach facilities (Evans, 2006). Acknowledgements Any intent to produce serious writing requires the inspiration, intelli- gence, and long dedication of its author; however, authorship requires meeting at least two conditions: first, the humility to acknowledge that we only interpret from the experience and lives of others and that it is only because others have produced knowledge before us that we can see further; second, that within the darkness of that accumulated sea of thoughts, letters, and images, it is only through the guidance of others that we may find the path toward what we seek. Hence, what we put on paper, as individuals, will always remain in time as a collective effort. This book is precisely that, a collection of ideas of many talented people. Nonetheless, I should acknowledge many friends and colleagues in particular. I first thank Peter McCleary—my intellectual guide in the second half of my life and a teacher who introduced me to the deepness of the philosophy of technology. Without that first impulse, what came next was near to unthinkable. Very specially, for his patience and intellectual generosity I shall thank Dr. Ron Kline, who became my mentor after we crossed words in 2005. This work would not have been possible without the long hours Ron devoted to marking up the manuscript and the several extra hours ix x Acknowledgements he gave advising me in his office, a café, or anywhere else we met in the world. Furthermore, I owe him because through the years he has showed me a new way of thinking: Relativism. Likewise, I show my gratitude to Dr. Trevor Pinch, Dr. Mike Lynch, and Dr. Phoebe Sengers from Cornell University for their invaluable contributions and advisory to build this book. Much of the core material that set out the basis for my argument came directly from those who, with their talent and determination, established the profession of airport planning. I cannot describe how thankful I am to the legendary Marge Brink Coridan, Gene Lewis, Alistair Sherret, and Bill Dunlay for answering my questions and, along the way, passing on to me their vibrant enthusiasm for airports. I espe- cially thank my friend Alceste Venturini for opening the doors of Jacobs Consultancy and its literature, truly an invaluable gesture. But the fur- ther back I went in history, oral histories were silenced by the inexorable pass of time. Thus, I needed the valuable assistance of those who order and classify knowledge. I appreciate the help I received from Douglas Di Carlo at La Guardia and Wagner Archives in Long Island City, Cynthia Ostroff at the Manuscripts and Archives at Yale University Library, Rodney Kite-Powel at the Tampa Bay History Center, Clarice Reardon at the Hillsborough County Library, Christine Peers and Jenifer Peals at the Tampa Historical Society, Dr. Robert Kerstein at the University of Tampa, Dr. Gary Mormino at USF St. Petersburg, and the staff at the National Archives II in Maryland, the New York Public Library, and the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University. In this work, I often echo the voices and work of others, and they deserve much of the credit for this book. I kindly thank those authors who lavishly shared thoughts about this work or discussed with me topics related to airport history such as Dr. Deborah Douglas—an inspirational model for this book, Dr. Marc Dierikx, Dr. Peter Lyth, Dr. Joe Corn, Dr. Nathalie Roseau, and Dr. Gordon Pririe. I also thank my colleagues Angeles Miranda, Graciela Torre, Jean-Philippe Percheron, Emilio Gil, and Jorge Sarralle for those long discussions in the practice of airport planning and design: We were in fact, from the professional trenches, chasing the meaning of what a landside–airside boundary might be. We still are. Acknowledgements xi Any book is also a collection of words, which must be carefully placed and hierarchized in order to transmit ideas and thoughts. Thus, I owe much of the structure and readability, coherence and style of this text to some generous friends, teachers, and editors who directly or indirectly have contributed to this work. I thank Dr. Keith Hjortshoj because he showed me the power of poetry, narrative, and style. I also deeply thank my lifelong friend Sabrina Spannagel at the University of Washington for her advice on the first chapters of this piece. Perhaps the biggest practical input came from my style editor, Kristen Ebert- Wagner, who shoulder to shoulder discussed with me each idea and par- agraph, until it reached its final shape. I have been privileged to learn from all of them. Finally, I sincerely appreciate the patience and support of Joshua Pitt and everyone at Palgrave Macmillan in London, without them this work would never have reached the print.
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