See the program for this upcoming conference to be held at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London, here and follow the twitter feeds @airportculture and @citiesatSAS. See also the Cities project at the School of Advanced Study, University of London.
In the spirit of this conference, here is a scene from an airport of the Second World:
Tolmachevo airport in Novosibirsk. Source: Institute of Modernism, Moscow.