Airports, cities and regions [electronic resource] / edited by Sven Conventz and Alain Thierstein.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Systems of airports within city regions / David C. Prosperi -- 2. The spatial distribution of airport-related economic activity : where are the jobs? / Julie Cidell -- 3. The air transport system of United Arab Emirates during the global financial crisis and Arab Spring / Khaula Abdulla Saif Al Kaabi -- 4. Amsterdam Mainport and metropolitan region : connectivity and urban development / Maurits Schaafsma -- 5. Airports and their regions : a reciprocal affair of spatial conflicts and economic development / Ute Knippenberger -- 6. From sprawl to city? A vision for sustainable airport regions / Mathis Guller -- 7. Airports and the knowledge economy : a relational perspective / Sven Conventz and Alain Thierstein -- 8. Where globality encounters locality : emergence of new knowledge-based spaces around the German airports of Frankfurt, Munich and Dusseldorf / Sven Conventz and Alain Thierstein -- 9. From inside-out to outside-in : changing spatial economic planning in the Amsterdam-Schiphol region / Michel van Wijk, Oedzge Atzema, and Wouter Jacobs -- 10. The promise and challenge of brownfield aerotropolises / Stephen J. Appold -- 11. The rise of the airport property market in Australia / Robert Freestone and Ilan Wiesel -- 12. Driving factors of Airport City developments : an international comparison / Jan Armin Schubert -- 13. Towards an effect-based model for airports and cities / Christian Salewski, Benedikt Boucsein and Anna Gasco -- 14. Airport, cities and the globe / Thomas Sieverts.