All That’s Solid Melts Into Airports
If the ultimate airport is a rich, luscious place brimming with entrainment and energy, a true magnet for local citizens–and if every airport can become such a site–of what use are the airplanes, of what use the term “destination” as we know it? John Kasarda and Greg Lindsay have called these future nodes aerotropoli, but we might as well ground all the pesky planes and call such a place utopia, instead.
By Christopher Schaberg.