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Aviationland: Heathrow and the Making of an Airport Landscape
By (author) Mark Crinson
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How the UK’s largest international airport remade a local landscape  Aviationland 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.  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.  Drawing on previously unpublished material, Aviationland includes close studies of key sites, as well as figures who shaped how we see the airport today, including Richard Rogers, Patrick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.
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Publisher | Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Published date | 23 Jun 2026
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 384
Dimensions | 256 x 192 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-1-9131-0753-6
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BISAC | architecture / public, commercial, or industrial buildings
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