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The economic geography of air transportation : space, time, and the freedom of the sky /
Like the railroad and the automobile, the airliner has changed the very geography of the societies it serves. Fundamentally, air transportation has helped redefine the scale of human geography by dramatically reducing the cost of distance, both in terms of time and money. The result is what the auth...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2010.
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| Colección: | Routledge studies in the modern world economy ;
81. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Like the railroad and the automobile, the airliner has changed the very geography of the societies it serves. Fundamentally, air transportation has helped redefine the scale of human geography by dramatically reducing the cost of distance, both in terms of time and money. The result is what the author terms the 'airborne world', meaning all those places dependent upon and transformed by relatively inexpensive air transportation. The Economic Geography of Air Transportation answers three key questions: how did air transportation develop in the century after the Wright. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 333 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-315) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780203857359 0203857356 0415778050 9780415778053 |