In the 2009 movie "Up in the Air" Ryan Bingham, played by George Clooney, tells viewers that "all the things you probably hate about traveling are warm reminders that I am home." Bingham and his colleagues built their lives around air travel. "Aerotropolis: The Way We'll Live Next," argues that the cities of the future must do the same.
In "Aerotropolis," John D. Kasarda, professor at University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School and Greg Lindsay, a journalist whose writing has appeared in Time, Fortune, BusinessWeek, and Fast Company, note that China and India have already begun to structure their new urban centers around airports. To ensure economic efficiency, they argue, U.S. cities must follow China and India's lead.
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The aviation pioneer who founded Miami Springs was Glenn Curtiss, not Curtis.
You only see a house sitting right next to a big open run-way. I am beginning to feel you lack the ability to think, listen or imagine.
I live next to Miami International Airport in a community built by aviation pioneer Glenn Curtis to serve the airport he built. Miami Springs. FL sits just north of MIA. Yet being next to the airport I hardly ever hear an airplane. Years ago there used to be a racetrack a couple of miles away in Hialeah. I heard the cars racing around the track quite clearly some nights, as if they were racing in my neighbors yard. We also have a railroad next door and we can sometimes hear the railroad cars squealing as they pass by. That railroad is much more noisy than the airport ever has been. Unexpectedly for a town set in the very heart of of a very busy county, Miami springs is a very quiet community, you would never guess if you were dropped here that you were right next to the airport.
Of course if you were right in the flight path, it would be another story. Along Le Jeune Road and NW 72nd Avenue east & west of the airport respectively you are bombarded by noise as jets take off and land all day long. Living in the flight path next to the airport would be a nightmare indeed.
If you are curious, here is a map of Miami Springs: http://goo.gl/maps/o1g9
Aerotropolis, railtropolis, autotropolis: all short-sighted concepts involving cities that revolve around a single mode of transportation. Not all products go by air and even China has to rely on ships/coastal cities to get most of their products to the world. While we should fill in that space around airports with industrial/commercial districts, we should not put people around these facilities. Anyone saying they'd prefer an airport-adjacent home is lying or clueless. The noise, tremors, and pollution are not ingredients to a decent quality of life. The only reason the Chinese live with it is because their communist government forces them to. And the reason companies are going to China is because cheap labor and no regulations. It's not because of an airport.
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