{{Short description|Airport-centered metropolitan subregion}} {{Other uses|Aerotropolis (album)}}{{For|the suburb of Sydney, Australia|Aerotropolis, New South Wales}}[[File:桃園航空城空拍圖.jpg|thumb|300px|Taoyuan Aerotropolis is an example of a large urban planning development at the Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport in Taoyuan City, Taiwan.]] An '''aerotropolis''' is a metropolitan subregion whose infrastructure, land use, and economy are centered on an airport.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|chapter-url=http://aerotropolis.com/airportcity/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/1b_Aerotropolis_encyclopedia_article_20170812.pdf|chapter=Aerotropolis|last=Kasarda|first=John D.|title=The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies|date=2019-04-15|publisher=Wiley|isbn=9781118568453|editor-last=Orum|editor-first=Anthony M|edition=1|pages=1–7|language=en|doi=10.1002/9781118568446.eurs0436|s2cid=243453488|archive-date=2023-04-17|access-date=2019-07-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230417084558/https://aerotropolis.com/airportcity/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/1b_Aerotropolis_encyclopedia_article_20170812.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> It fuses the terms "aero-" (aviation) and "metropolis" and is similar to the concept described as an airport city. Like the traditional metropolis made up of a central city core and its outlying commuter-linked suburbs, the aerotropolis consists of 1) the airport's aeronautical, logistics, and commercial infrastructure forming a multimodal, multifunctional airport city at its core and 2) outlying corridors and clusters of businesses and associated residential developments that feed off each other and their accessibility to the airport.<ref name=":1" /><ref>Kasarda, John D., 3-D Aerotropolis Schematic with Airport City Center. http://www.aerotropolis.com/files/AerotropolisSchematicWithCore.jpg {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170909100116/http://www.aerotropolis.com/files/AerotropolisSchematicWithCore.jpg |date=2017-09-09 }}</ref> The word ''aerotropolis'' was first used by New York commercial artist Nicholas DeSantis, whose drawing of a skyscraper rooftop airport in the city was presented in the November 1939 issue of ''Popular Science''.<ref>{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QywDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA70 |title=Popular Science |date= November 1939|publisher=Bonnier Corporation |language=en}}</ref> The term was repurposed by air commerce researcher John D. Kasarda in 2000 based on his prior research on airport-driven economic development.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kasarda|first=John D.|date=1991|title=AN INDUSTRIAL AVIATION COMPLEX FOR THE FUTURE|url=http://trid.trb.org/view.aspx?id=339821|journal=Urban Land|volume=50|issue=8|pages=16–20|access-date=27 August 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kasarda|first=John D.|date=December 1998|title=Time-Based Competition & Industrial Location in the Fast Century|url=http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/1768376/time-based-competition-industrial-location-fast-century|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150930104852/http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/1768376/time-based-competition-industrial-location-fast-century|url-status=dead|archive-date=2015-09-30|journal=Real Estate Issues|volume=23|issue=4|page=24|access-date=27 August 2015}}</ref><ref>Kasarda, John D. "Logistics & the Rise of the Aerotropolis". Real Estate Issues, Vol. 25 (Winter 2000/2001): pp. 43–48.</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Aerotropolis: Airport-Driven Urban Development|last=Kasarda|first=John D.|series=ULI on the Future: Cities in the 21st Century|publisher=Urban Land Institute|year=2000|location=Washington, D.C.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Aerotropolis: The Way We'll Live Next|last1=Kasarda|first1=John D.|last2=Lindsay|first2=Greg|publisher=Farrar, Straus, and Giroux|year=2011|isbn=978-0374533519}}</ref>
==Airports, connectivity, and development== {{see also |Airport city}} According to Kasarda, airports have evolved as drivers of business location and urban development in the 21st century in the same way as highways did in the 20th century, railroads in the 19th century, and seaports in the 18th century. The engine of the aerotropolis is the airport and its air routes, which offer firms speedy connectivity to their suppliers, customers, and enterprise partners. Some aerotropolis businesses are more dependent on distant suppliers or customers halfway around the world than those located nearby. As economies become increasingly globalized, time-sensitive, and reliant on air commerce for trade in goods and services, the speed and agility aviation provides to long-distance movement of people and goods generate competitive advantages for firms and places. In the aerotropolis model, time and cost of connectivity replace space and distance as the primary metrics shaping development, with "economies of speed" becoming as salient for the competitiveness of firms and places as economies of scale and economies of scope.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book|title=Cultures and Mobility|last=Kasarda|first=John D.|publisher=Universitatsverlag Winter|year=2013|editor-last=Klaus|editor-first=Benesch|location=Heidelberg, Germany|pages=9–20|chapter=Aerotropolis: Business Mobility and Urban Competitiveness in the 21st Century|chapter-url=http://www.cpc.unc.edu/research/publications/8061}}</ref> In this model, it is not how far but how fast widely separated firms and places can connect.
The aerotropolis encompasses aviation-dependent businesses and the commercial services that support them and the multitude of air travelers who pass through the airport annually.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.airport-world.com/features/airport-design/2555-airport-cities-the-evolution.html|title=Airport cities: The evolution - Airport World Magazine|last=Kasarda|first=John D.|date=21 April 2013|access-date=2015-08-27|archive-date=2015-09-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904160012/http://www.airport-world.com/features/airport-design/2555-airport-cities-the-evolution.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://aerotropolis.com/airportcity/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/MHFIGI-Gateway-Airports-Updated.pdf|title=Gateway Airports: Commercial Magnets and Critical Business Infrastructure|last=Kasarda|first=John D.|date=November 2014|website=McGraw Hill Financial Global Institute|archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20160205072435/http://media.mhfi.com/documents/MHFIGI%2DGateway%2DAirports%2DUpdated.pdf|archive-date=5 February 2016|url-status=dead|access-date=2015-08-27}}</ref> These businesses include, among others, high-tech<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Xiao |first1=Fan |last2=Wang |first2=Jiaoe |last3=Xiong |first3=Meicheng |last4=Mo |first4=Huihui |date=January 2024 |title=Does spatiotemporal heterogeneity matter? Air transport and the rise of high-tech industry in China |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0143622823002795 |journal=Applied Geography |language=en |volume=162 |article-number=103148 |doi=10.1016/j.apgeog.2023.103148|bibcode=2024AppGe.16203148X |url-access=subscription |doi-access=free }}</ref> and advanced manufacturing, logistics, and e-commerce fulfillment; high-value perishables and biomeds; destination retail, sports, entertainment, and medical/wellness complexes; hotels; conference, trade, and exhibition centers; and offices for businesspeople who travel frequently by air or engage in global commerce.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Appold|first1=Stephen J.|last2=Kasarda|first2=John D.|date=2013-05-01|title=The Airport City Phenomenon: Evidence from Large US Airports|url=http://aerotropolis.com/airportcity/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/The_Airport_City_Phenomenon_Appold__Kasarda_2013.pdf|journal=Urban Studies|volume=50|issue=6|pages=1239–1259|doi=10.1177/0042098012464401|bibcode=2013UrbSt..50.1239A |s2cid=154749205|issn=0042-0980|archive-date=2022-04-02|access-date=2019-07-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220402095857/http://aerotropolis.com/airportcity/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/The_Airport_City_Phenomenon_Appold__Kasarda_2013.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> Business parks, logistics parks, R&D parks, time-critical distribution centers, and information technology complexes as well as hotel, conference, and entertainment venues are most frequently visible around major new airports on metropolitan peripheries where there is sufficient land and along the transportation corridors radiating from them.<ref name=":1" /> As increasing numbers of aviation-oriented firms and commercial service providers cluster around and outward from airports, the aerotropolis is becoming a major urban destination where air travelers and locals alike work, shop, meet, exchange knowledge, conduct business, eat, sleep, and are entertained, often without going more than 15 minutes from the airport.<ref>"About the Aerotropolis," http://www.aerotropolis.com/airportCities/about-the-aerotropolis {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110731113044/http://www.aerotropolis.com/airportCities/about-the-aerotropolis |date=2011-07-31 }}</ref> The outcome is a new form of transit-oriented development centered on runways and along their connecting surface transportation arteries.
The aerotropolis is more, though, than clusters and corridors of airport-linked commercial, industrial, and logistics facilities. It also consists of living urban places that must be planned and designed as appealing environmental and social realms.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite magazine|last1=Eveland|first1=Jennifer|last2=Tng|first2=Serene|date=2019|title=Global gateways, local hubs|url=https://aerotropolisbusinessconcepts.aero/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Skyline-issue-11-_-global-gateways-local-hubs-1.pdf|journal=Magazine|issue=11|pages=16–23}} *{{lay source |template=cite web |author=Jennifer Eveland |author2=Serene Tng |title=Global gateways, local hubs |url=https://www.ura.gov.sg/Corporate/Resources/Publications/Skyline/Skyline-issue11/Global-gateways |website=Urban Redevelopment Authority}}</ref>
Some aerotropolises have arisen spontaneously, responding to organic market forces with a lack of planning, contributing to sprawl while creating highway congestion, pollution, and other negative externalities. Applying principles of smart urban growth and sustainability are essential to the formation of a successful aerotropolis,<ref>Freestone, R. (2009). Planning, Sustainability and Airport-Led Urban Development. International Planning Studies, 14(2), 161-176. {{doi|10.1080/13563470903021217}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Banai|first=Reza|date=January 2017|title=The aerotropolis: Urban sustainability perspectives from the regional city|url=https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/187852/JTLU_vol10no1_pp357-373.pdf?sequence=1|journal=Journal of Transport and Land Use|volume=10|issue=1|pages=357–373|doi=10.5198/jtlu.2016.889|issn=1938-7849|access-date=2019-07-08|doi-access=free}}</ref> as is stakeholder alignment.<ref name=":4" /><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Kasarda|first1=John D.|last2=Canon|first2=Michael H.|date=September 2016|title=Creating an Effective Aerotropolis Master Plan|url=https://aerotropolisbusinessconcepts.aero/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Kasarda-Canon_Regional_Economic_Review_Vol-5_20161025-1.pdf|journal=Regional Economic Review|volume=5}}</ref> Governance entities aligning airport management, airport-surrounding communities, and city and regional officials with local business and economic development leaders should implement aerotropolis planning to achieve greater economic efficiencies along with more attractive and sustainable development.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.airport-world.com/features/marketing-communications/634-love-thy-neighbour.html|title=Love thy neighbour|last1=Appold|first1=Stephen|last2=Kasarda|first2=John D.|publisher=Airport World Magazine|access-date=17 January 2023|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170925070136/http://www.airport-world.com/features/marketing-communications/634-love-thy-neighbour.html|archive-date=25 September 2017}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://aerotropolisbusinessconcepts.aero/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/PlanningACompetitiveAerotropolis.pdf|title=The Economics of International Airline Transport|last1=Kasarda|first1=John D.|last2=Appold|first2=Stephen|publisher=Emerald Group Publishing Limited|year=2014|isbn=978-1-78350-639-2|editor-last=Peoples|editor-first=James H. Jr.|series=Advances in Airline Economics|volume=4|pages=281–308|chapter=Planning a Competitive Aerotropolis|doi=10.1108/S2212-160920140000004010|issn=2212-1609|access-date=2019-07-12}}</ref>
==Criticisms of the concept== A major criticism is the question of whether oil will stay relatively inexpensive and widely available in the future or whether a downturn in global oil production ("peak oil") will adversely affect aviation and thus the aerotropolis.<ref>{{Cite magazine|title = The End Of Aviation|url = https://newrepublic.com/article/environment-energy/the-end-aviation|magazine = The New Republic|access-date = 2015-09-09|first = Bradford|last = Plumer|date = 27 August 2008}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Chohan|first=Usman W.|date=2019-06-30|title=The concept of the aerotropolis: A review|url=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID3412543_code2508452.pdf?abstractid=3412543&mirid=1|journal=CASS Working Papers on Economics and National Affairs, EC006UC|language=en|location=Rochester, NY|ssrn=3412543}}</ref> Others have criticized the aerotropolis model for overstating the number and types of goods that travel by air. While many types of high-value goods like electronics tend to be shipped by air, larger, bulkier items like cars and grain do not. Those who point this out suggest that the relationship between seaports, airports, and rail facilities should be studied in more depth.<ref>Charles, M. B., Barnes, P., Ryan, N., & Clayton, J. (2007). Airport Futures: Towards a Critique of the Aerotropolis Model. Futures, 39 (9), 1009-1028.</ref> Further criticisms of the aerotropolis include loss of farmland and forests, eviction and/or the exclusion of local residents and communities from the economic benefits of the aerotropolis, and locking in high-carbon infrastructure for decades to come.<ref>{{Cite news|url = https://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2852321/aerotropolis_alert_airport_megaprojects_driving_environmental_destruction_worldwide.html|title = Aerotropolis alert! Airport mega-projects driving environmental destruction worldwide|last = Bridger|first = Rose|date = 8 May 2015|work = The Ecologist|access-date = 30 August 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://antiaero.org/|title=Global Anti-Aerotropolis Movement (GAAM)|website=antiaero.org|language=en|access-date=2019-07-08}}</ref>
Social critics argue that the aerotropolis favors the interests of business over that of people and that its mixed-use commercial/residential developments typically lack urban ambience.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/mar/03/aerotropolis-london-kasarda-rowan-moore|title=Aerotropolis:the city of the future?|last=Moore|first=Rowan|date=2013-03-03|work=The Observer|access-date=2019-07-08|language=en-GB|issn=0029-7712}}</ref> Some have questioned why people would ever want to live next to an airport, given aircraft noise.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/china/2015/03/12/aerotropolitan-ambitions|title=Aerotropolitan ambitions|date=2015-03-12|newspaper=The Economist|access-date=2019-07-08|issn=0013-0613}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2016/04/11/why-you-should-want-to-live-right-next-to-an-airport/|title=Why You Should Want To Live Right Next To An Airport|last=Shepard|first=Wade|date=2016-04-11|website=Forbes|language=en|access-date=2019-07-08}}</ref> Still, others claim that while there are cases where the aerotropolis concept has worked well (e.g., Amsterdam Schiphol and Dallas-Fort Worth airport areas),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.airport-technology.com/features/aerotropolis-modelling-cities-airports/|title=Aerotropolis: modelling cities after airports|date=2018-01-22|website=Airport Technology|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-07-08}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://urbanland.uli.org/industry-sectors/infrastructure-transit/evolution-of-an-aerotropolis/|title=Evolution of an Aerotropolis|last=Kiger|first=Patrick J.|date=2016-10-27|website=Urban Land Magazine|language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-08|archive-date=2020-06-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200610040434/https://urbanland.uli.org/industry-sectors/infrastructure-transit/evolution-of-an-aerotropolis/|url-status=dead}}</ref> it has often failed to live up to expectations when applied elsewhere.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://siteselection.com/issues/2017/mar/airport-cities-whats-wrong-with-the-aerotropolis-model.cfm|title=What's Wrong with the Aerotropolis Model? {{!}} Site Selection Magazine|last=Hirsh|first=Max|date=March 2017|website=Site Selection|language=en|access-date=2019-07-08}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [https://antiaero.org/ Global anti-aerotropolis movement (GAAM)] * [http://aerotropolis.com/ aerotropolis.com] * [https://www.as-ishomebuyer.com/ As-Is Home Acquisition]
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