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Investments in transport infrastructure also support societal wealth of course they pay dividends in a simple financial sense. But travel facilities are especially effective carriers of symbolism. Overinvestment in airports and in airport access is common in poor countries. Such facilities are good examples of Flyvbjerg s megaprojects paradox hundreds of millions of dollars spent on an airport that handles a dozen international flights a day. Such places are symbolically very important. Travel facilities welcome the stranger, and tell the crucial first story about how well the state supports the interests of its people. Travelers from afar unavoidably witness these projects. [Pg.27]

Anton Tedesko, designer of such significant concrete shell structures as the sports arena in Hershey, Pennsylvania, and the airport terminal in St. Louis, relates the story of inspecting fine hairline cracks that developed in a hyperbolic paraboloidal shell in Denver that he designed for I. M. Pei. The concrete shell does not possess the stiffening ribs that have been criticized as architec-... [Pg.83]

CBC News, January 5 2010. See http //www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/01/05/security-canada-us-airport.html ixzz0eVT3wBNY. [Pg.198]


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