New US urban planning trend: "Aerotropolises"...

[Sporkman]

...Atlanta is just one of several cities latching onto the trend of trying to build all the aspects of a city around an airport — an "aerotropolis" as it's called by planners. The push is for aviation authorities to partner with private companies to cohesively and systematically develop bountiful land near the airport to attract office space, warehouses, logistics centers, retail stores, recreational facilities and apartments...

http://travel.usatoday.com/flights/story/2011/04/Cities-build-airport-cities----aerotropolises---for-growth/46293998/1

[sydbat]

...Atlanta is just one of several cities latching onto the trend of trying to build all the aspects of a city around an airport — an "aerotropolis" as it's called by planners. The push is for aviation authorities to partner with private companies to cohesively and systematically develop bountiful land near the airport to attract office space, warehouses, logistics centers, retail stores, recreational facilities and apartments... http://travel.usatoday.com/flights/story/2011/04/Cities-build-airport-cities----aerotropolises---for-growth/46293998/1We've been doing that for a couple of decades here. Of course, we also had voice pagers before the US and fibre optic networks too, but I digress...:P

[Sporkman]

Of course, we also had voice pagers before the US and fibre optic networks too, but I digress...:P

Ouch! :lol:

[mips]

Spruce Creek (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spruce_Creek_Airport) takes the cake though.

Instead of a car in your driveway you have plane...

[NMFTM]

Wasn't that how Brazilia started out?

[Dustin2128]

I thought atlanta was an airport...