{"product_id":"aviationland-mark-crinson-9781913107536","title":"Aviationland: Heathrow and the Making of an Airport Landscape","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow the UK's largest international airport remade a local landscape\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAviationland\u003c\/i\u003e is the first critical study to examine how a major international airport takes shape on the ground, and what that means for the landscape around it. Focused on Heathrow airport, it traces how the area has been formed and reformed by overlapping systems of architecture, infrastructure and enclosure, from the common land of Hounslow Heath in the eighteenth century to the global transport hub of the present day. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The book explores the different forces that have shaped the airport's environment: the remaking of landforms, the design of terminal buildings, and the surrounding sprawl of hotels, schools, factories, and business parks. At the same time, it shows how the Heathrow area has been moulded by wider shifts in energy, mobility, and the economy, and how the airport has in turn left a lasting mark on its surroundings, both materially and ecologically. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Drawing on previously unpublished material, \u003ci\u003eAviationland\u003c\/i\u003e includes close studies of key sites, as well as figures who shaped how we see the airport today, including Richard Rogers, Patrick Abercrombie, and J. G. Ballard. Bringing together architectural, landscape, and infrastructural histories that are seldom read in tandem, this volume makes the case for Heathrow as a distinctively modern landscape. The result is a nuanced account of how local places become entangled within global systems, and what happens when they do.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Crinson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1913107531\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781913107536\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Mellon Centre\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/14\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Mark Crinson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48112744694015,"sku":"9781913107536","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_035da120-5465-49b8-bcdf-945af09a9348.jpg?v=1769610647","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/aviationland-mark-crinson-9781913107536","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}