The Airport as Urban Territory: The Spatial Effects of Singapore's Changi Airport

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