Format:
Book
Title:
Denver International Airport : lessons learned / Paul Stephen Dempsey, Andrew R. Goetz, Joseph S. Szyliowicz.
Author:
Dempsey, Paul Stephen.
Call Number:
C387.736097 D399de
Publisher, Date:
New York : McGraw Hill, c1997.
Description:
xviii, 557 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"Denver International Airport, the pride of its city, is the largest, most technologically advanced airport on earth. It handles 92 landings per hour, delays averaged just .5% of flights in the first year of operation, and its ontime performance continues to be exemplary. Yet the project was fraught with unexpected difficulties, and at times the specter of total failure hovered over Denver Mayor Federico Pena's field of dreams."--BOOK JACKET. "This book tells the fascinating story of how the biggest public works project in recent decades came to be, with all the drama of crucial decisions of monumental impact, colorful actors, fame, fortune, deceit, and despair."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects:
Denver International Airport.
Other Author:
Goetz, Andrew R.
Szyliowicz, Joseph S.
Contents:
1. The world's largest airport -- 2. Three hubs to one: The folly of forecasting in the dynamic airline industry -- 3. The politics of DIA's development -- 4. The economic impact of airports -- 5. Financing the field of dreams -- 6. Location, location, location: Site selection, environmental impacts, and ground access -- 7. Airport layout, design, and technologies -- 8. Architecture and aesthetics -- 9. How did a $1.5 billion airport become a $5.3 billion airport? -- 10. Airport planning theory in perspective -- 11. What have we learned? -- App. DIA chronology.
ISBN:
0071581847 (alk. paper)