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Tables of Contents for Life in the Air
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction: Air Travel as a Simple Fact of Life
1
8
Part 1 The Airport
The Terminal as Transition Space and Gateway
9
6
The Airport as Shopping Mall
15
5
The Airport as City and Community
20
18
Eroticism and the Airport
38
4
Boredom, Delays, Cancellations
42
17
Part 2 Nowhere Architecture
Place and Placelessness
59
3
Airport Architecture: Creating a Sense of Place
62
13
The Airport Sign System
75
3
Social Activities within Terminals
78
5
Part 3 Life in the Air
Frequent Flying: What Fliers Want
83
7
Airplane Etiquette: Behavior in the Air
90
6
Drunks
96
4
Laughs
100
2
Meals
102
5
Crashes and Air Safety
107
7
Fear of Flying
114
6
New Horrors
120
3
Medical Emergencies
123
3
Dehydration
126
2
Jetlag: Flying and Folk Religion
128
7
Part 4 The Compression of Space and Time
Industrial and Corporate Changes
135
3
The Need for Air Travel
138
3
Experiencing Space/Time Compression
141
6
Bi-coastalism and the Fear of Flying
147
3
Bi-coastalism: Disorientation and Decompression
150
4
Living in the Air: How People Do It
154
5
Part 5 The Airline Business: Growing Concerns
The Emergence of Transactional Spaces
159
3
Capitalism and the Path to Deregulation
162
5
Hubs, Spokes and Deregulation
167
3
Discount Carriers
170
5
Crazy Fares
175
2
When Lives Were Lost Due to Deregulation
177
3
Labor Costs and Contentious Employer-Employee Relations
180
6
Complaints: Overcrowding, Overbooking, and Increasing Consumer Discontent
186
7
The Future of Deregulation
193
6
Part 6 Epilogue: The Most Important Thing
Flying and the Future
199
6
References
205
6
Index
211
6
About the Author
217