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How Are We Going To Live Next?
New Book, Aerotropolis, Suggests How
Not so long ago, airports were built near cities, and roads connected the one to the other. This pattern—the city in the center, the airport on the periphery—shaped life in the twentieth century.
Today, the ubiquity of air travel, over night shipping, working 24/7 and global business networks has turned the pattern inside out. Soon the airport will be the center and the city will be built around it.
Welcome to the aerotropolis: a combination of giant airport, planned city, shipping and business hub. The aerotropolis approach to urban living is now reshaping life in Seoul, Amsterdam, China, India, Dallas, Memphis, Washington DC. Its the frontier of the next phase of globalization, whether we like it or not.
Co-author John D. Kasarda defined the term ‘aerotropolis’ and he is now sought after worldwide as an adviser. Journist Greg Lindsay is working with Kasarda’s ideas and gives us vivid, at time disquieting look at these instant cities in the making.
Aerotropolis is news from the near future-news we urgently need if we are to understand the changing world and our place in it.
- In 2009, the world’s airlines carried more than two billion passengers
- Heathrow sees more traffic than Britian has citizens.
- There are more jobs in the O’Hare corridor than there are in downtown Chicago.
- Today, more than a third of all the goods traded in the world-some $3 trillion worth-travels via air freight.
- Airplanes contribute 2% to the total amount of global emissions. Road transportation-11%.
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