Janet R. Daly Bednarek Boeken

Focusing on the transformation of Omaha, the book explores the city's historical landmarks that symbolize its industrial and cultural evolution. It highlights significant sites like the Hotel Fontenelle and Peony Park, which vanished due to post-WWII changes and suburban expansion. The narrative delves into the impact of these losses, including the closure of the stockyards in 1999, and examines how such changes reflect broader shifts in urban life. Historian Janet R. Daly Bednarek captures the essence of Omaha's changing landscape through its lost heritage.

This book explores the relationship between cities and their commercial airports. These vital transportation facilities are locally owned and managed and civic leaders and boosters have made them central to often expansive economic development dreams, including the construction of architecturally significant buildings. However, other metropolitan residents have paid a high price for the expansion of air transportation, as battles over jet aircraft noise resulted not only in quieter jet engine technologies, but profound changes in the metropolitan landscape with the clearance of both urban and suburban neighborhoods. And in the wake of 9/11, the US commercial airport has emerged as the place where Americans most fully experience the security regime introduced after those terrorist attacks.