ABSTRACT
If we follow the line of much literature surrounding airports and urban mobility, the emphasis often falls on the fact that these spaces are designed to handle the mega-scale and super-human pace of mass transit. Airports have rightly been associated with velocity, as zones of rapid movement managed by enormous processing systems that guide bodies and things in transit. Yet this emphasis tends to ignore the spectrum of tempos and flows that are at play in the infrastructural spaces of airport terminals – from stillness to the hyper-rapidity of mobilized publics in the go-go world of commercial aviation.
