The Airport as Urban Territory

Anna Gasco is head of urbanism at the Academy of Architecture at the Amsterdam University of the Arts in the Netherlands. She is an architect and urban designer with over twenty years of international experience in practice, research, and teaching.

Acknowledgements List of Figures Preface by Kees Christiaanse The Urban Planning Rationale of Airports Analytical Frame Airport Urbanism? Airports and Cities, a Multifaceted Relationship Current Spatial Models of Airport-related Urban Developments Enlarging the Frame: Singapore's Airport Urban Territory The Singapore Case A Centralised System "Hinterlandisation", the SIJORI Cross-Border Region Singapore's Flight Information Region (FIR), a History of Borders and Spatial Control Tracing the Airport's Urban Territory Multiple Actors Specific Case Studies Mobile Methods and Empirical Research A Portrait Of Singapore Changi Airport Atlas Fieldwork Journey A Airport as Destination Airport Platform Airport Periphery Perishables Flows High-value Flows Tourism Flows Empirical Explorations The Airport Island Early Developments of the Changi Area The Path to Changi Current Airport Layout Location in the surrounding urban structure Effects on City Planning Position within regional transport networks The Changi East Project The Productive Landscape Perishable Networks of Ornamental Flowers Perishable Networks of Ornamental Fish High-value Networks of Electronics The Leisure Landscape Cross-border Tourism Networks Bintan Segregated Leisure Urbanisation Exceptional Governance and related societal and environmental externalities Spatial Typological Classification INVESTIGATIONS Changi Airport's Urban Territory: A Spatial Reading Changi Extended Airport Region: Limitations and Potentials The Emergence of a New Image: Underlying Parameters and Typological Reading Outlook and Concepts for Better Airport-related Developments Bibliography Index Bibliography Index

"This book is a must-read for scholars and practitioners of airport urbanism. Investigating one of the world's top aviation hubs through the lens of urban design, Gasco pinpoints the key factors that drive successful airport-led development. These 'six principles' offer valuable insights for anyone involved in the planning and design of airports -- and the cities that they serve."- Max Hirsh, Managing Director, Airport City Academy "Drawing on data from many sources, including site visits and archival research, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the urbanization processes associated with Singapore's Changi Airport. Its strength is its multi-scalar approach, which involves studying the airport and its grounds, the immediate surroundings, the national level, and then the interactions beyond Singapore's borders. This deep dive into the data, combined with a sophisticated 'layering' of its influences and interactions, makes for an exceptionally comprehensive and rich study of this key infrastructure." - Francis E. Hutchinson, Senior Fellow at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute and Co-Editor of The SIJORI Series "If you want to see, feel, and grasp the inner workings of our contemporary urban condition, you have to follow Anna in her vivid and brilliant investigation. Cleverly taking Singapore's Changi Airport as her vantage point, she leads us through the scales and spaces of modernity - runways, freeports, jungle flower farms, high-end electronic manufacturing, resorts - to forever change our understanding of what a city is." - Christian Salewski, architect and urban designer, Director of ETH Zurich Airports and Cities Research Platform