Hmmmm…. Aerotropolis
Here’s the upcoming book about how cities will be centered on their connectivity in the form of airports. I don’t buy it.
Soon the airport will be at the center and the city will be built around it, the better to keep workers, suppliers, executives, and goods in touch with the global market.
Unless they solve the dual threats facing the air transport industry: extremely long feedback loops and the highly leveraged nature of the business (both in finance and an ultra-reliance on the oil industry), this premise is a nonstarter.
-Shlok
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