The airport industry -- The airport as a unique twentieth-century building type -- Relationship between airports, terminals and aircraft design -- Layout, growth and access to airports -- Masterplanning airports -- The terminal as part of the airport system -- Procurement and management of terminals -- Flexibility and permanence in airport design -- The terminal as a movement system -- Baggage handling -- TErminal design concepts -- Conflict between function and meansing in the design of terminals -- Passenger types, space standards and territories -- Technical standards -- Major international airport terminals -- National airport terminals -- Regional airport terminals -- Other airport structures -- Characteristics of twenty-first-century airports -- The terminal of the future