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From Dubai to Amsterdam, Memphis to South Korea, a new phenomenon is reshaping the way we live and transforming the way we do business: the aerotropolis. A combination of giant airport, planned city, shipping facility and business hub, the aerotropolis will be at the heart of the next phase of globalization. Drawing on a decade's worth of cutting-edge research, John Kasarda and Greg Lindsay offer a visionary look at how the metropolis of the future will bring us together - and how, in our globalized, 'flat' world, connecting people and goods is still as important as digital communication. Airport cities will change the face of our physical world and the nature of global enterprise. "Aerotropolis" shows us how to make the most of this unparalleled opportunity.
- Sales Rank: #960333 in Books
- Published on: 2011-03-01
- Released on: 2011-03-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.31" h x 1.57" w x 6.30" l, 1.59 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 480 pages
Amazon.com Review
This brilliant and eye-opening look at the new phenomenon called the aerotropolis gives us a glimpse of the way we will live in the near future—and the way we will do business too. 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, from the central city to exurban sprawl. Today, the ubiquity of jet travel, round-the-clock workdays, overnight shipping, and global business networks has turned the pattern inside out. Soon the airport will be at the center and the city will be built around it, the better to keep workers, suppliers, executives, and goods in touch with the global market.
This is the aerotropolis: a combination of giant airport, planned city, shipping facility, and business hub. The aerotropolis approach to urban living is now reshaping life in Seoul and Amsterdam, in China and India, in Dallas and Washington, D.C. The aerotropolis is the frontier of the next phase of globalization, whether we like it or not.
John D. Kasarda defined the term “aerotropolis,” and he is now sought after worldwide as an adviser. Working with Kasarda’s ideas and research, the gifted journalist Greg Lindsay gives us a vivid, at times disquieting look at these instant cities in the making, the challenges they present to our environment and our usual ways of life, and the opportunities they offer to those who can exploit them creatively. Aerotropolis is news from the near future—news we urgently need if we are to understand the changing world and our place in it.
Amazon Exclusive: A Q&A with Author Greg Lindsay
Q: In a few sentences, what's the central message of your book?
A: Successful cities have always been founded because of trade--from Ur to New York, these are places where people exchange goods, money and ideas. Meanwhile, the shape of cities has always been defined by transportation. Boston was built around its docks;,Chicago around the railroads, and Los Angeles around the car. And the world is poised to build literally hundreds of new cities as 3 billion urbanize over the next forty years. So where would you put a new city today? And how would a city in western China--historically the middle of nowhere--connect to the world? The answer is the airport. In a global economy, where trillions of dollars in goods and billions of people follow digital bits around the world, sooner or later we would end up building cities defined by their airports, because the only geography that matters vis economic geography. It sounds like science fiction, but it's always been this way.
Q: It seems like airports have been on people's minds lately: in movies like Up in the Air, in books like A Week at the Airport by Alain de Botton, and, of course, all over the news, thanks to the A-380 Superjumbo Jet and the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Was this the right time for this book?
A: The right time would have been 1962, when Eero Sarrinen's swooping TWA Flight Center was unveiled at New York's JFK and everyone was in love with the tantalizing speed jets offered. Air travel promised to change the world, and it has--albeit in ways that are so central to our daily lives they're all-but invisible to us. Today, the great wonder is one-click shopping from our iPhones, even though overnight delivery is only made possible by the enormous hubs of FedEx and UPS and nearly a thousand planes between them. Today, I listened to the CEO of FedEx lament that aviation is "taken for granted," and he's right. But it's only been in the last decade or so that air travel has really started to change the world--most of all because hundreds of millions of Chinese and Indian passengers have just begun to fly. China added the equivalent of Great Britian's air traffic during the previous decade--and they have not yet begun to fly. The world's newest frequent fliers will reshape the world--or, some worry, will destroy it.
Q: How does the vision of Aerotropolis fit in with books like Thomas Friedman's The World is Flat, or Richard Florida's The Rise of the Creative Class, which talk a lot about the free exchange and flow of goods, ideas, and people?
A: People reading Friedman get the impression--whether correctly or not--that what we call globalization started with the Internet. Really, it began with the jet. As for Richard Florida, today he talks about "megaregions"--huge groupings of cities--competing on a global basis for the best talent and opportunities. He's right. In Chicago, the outgoing mayor Richard M. Daley talks about Saó Paul and Mumbai as Chicago's closest competitors, not St. Louis and Milwaukee. And that's why Daley is desperate to expand O'Hare--because international connections are what make it a global city. That's led to the area around O'Hare becoming the second-largest business district in the Midwest, behind the Loop, and also to the Loop's resurgence as the home of the highly-paid white collar employees of the multinational firms who have set up shop in Chicago over the last 20 years. You need a good airport to both attract talent on a worldwide basis, and also to project that talent across the country or around the world.
Q: Do you think there will be a limited capacity for the new aerotropolis -- can the world handle only so many Dubais and Memphises? For example, what about cities like Wilmington, Ohio, which until recently was the hub of Airborne Express and DHL and is now looking for a buyer for the airport?
A: The future won't look like the Jetsons, that's for sure. One of the book's messages is that cities rise-and-fall, usurp dying ones and are eventually replaced by the next great ones, and that this pattern has been defined through history by trade routes and transportations. One of the reasons China, India, and the petro-states of the Persian Gulf are sinking billions into their airports, airlines and new aircraft is because they're trying to go from backwaters to global hubs practically overnight, creating a "New Silk Road" running all the way from Beijing to Johannesburg. It isn't a literal road--it's made up of air routes. And one thing about the New Silk Road is that it has nothing to do with America. It's about rewiring the global economy so that it runs through the East, not the West. That's what I mean when I describe the aerotropolis as a "weapon"--the world is in midst of what is seen as a zero-sum, winner-take-all battle to corner the market on prosperity. Many places will build one; by definition, only a few will succeed. I'm not endorsing it, but this is what it looks like on a ground when you read newspaper stories about the U.S. and China tussling over exchange rates--it's about who get to manufacture the iPad, and where, to keep those jobs.
Q: You write that aesthetics are not one of the aerotropolis's strong suits. Will people really want to live there? Or will they not have a choice?
A: Humanity is officially an urban species. More than half of all people live in cities now, whether those are downtowns, suburbs, or (increasingly) slums. According to one report I've seen, the urban footprint of Earth is expected to double in just 19 years. No matter what we build, aesthetics aren't likely to be cities' strong suits--at least not in places like the Chinese city of Chongqing, which is adding the equivalent of a Pittsburgh every year. One of the great luxuries of the 21st century will be a sense of place. The qualities of an aerotropolis being built in China — speed, efficiency, generic "world-class" architecture--are the qualities of the instant cities rising around the globe.
Q: What differentiates the aerotropolis from other commercially-centered visions of urban planning, like the suburban strip mall or Leavittown?
A: Those are examples of what you get when private developers are driving the agenda, which has been the case in American since post-WWII suburbia, at least. The places that are consciously looking to develop (or redevelop) the areas around their airports, like Detroit, or Amsterdam, or Beijing, have done a much better job about thinking regionally, about bringing public and private interests together, and trying to build something that makes sense from both an economic and urban planning standpoint, rather than just make a quick buck. A great example is Amsterdam, which built an entirely new business district called the Zuidas on its southern border with towers expressly designed for the Netherlands' largest banks and other companies, along with housing, all centered on a train station that is six minutes from the airport. It's a lot better than the alternative--exurbs lying forty miles from Phoenix, Arizona.
Review
"The closest thing to a real-world vision to rival that of [H. G.] Wells... a mind-expanding ride that reminds us, once again, that humanity needs no apocalypse to reinvent itself." --Thomas P.M. Barnett, World Politics Review
“The days when we built our airports around cities now seem distant; in the new, mobile century, we build our cities around airports . . . Cities are becoming like airports--places to leave from more than to live in. I'd always sensed this, but it came home to me with almost shocking immediacy when I was reading the dazzling new book Aerotropolis. One of its authors, John F. Kasarda, is a business professor in North Carolina who flies from Amsterdam to Seoul preaching the gospel of building homes and businesses near airports. Co-author Greg Lindsay is a journalist who knows how to make Kasarda's research racy while raising questions about the cost of living in midair . . . Aerotropolis points out that we can still address the oldest needs but in new and liberating ways.” ―Pico Iyer, Time
“I'd wager that the notion [of the aerotropolis] is about to occupy a little more real estate in the popular imagination. This book will no doubt do for airport cities what Joel Garreau and his "Edge City" did for suburban office parks and shopping malls two decades ago: It will relocate the center . . . The prospect sketched out in Aerotropolis--while slightly thrilling, as tectonic shifts often are--feels about as dispiriting as those warehouse zones clustered near the ends of runways. And it's made all the more so by the realization that the authors are undoubtedly right.” ―Wayne Curtis, Wall Street Journal
“In Aerotropolis, John Kasarda of the University of North Carolina and his co-author, Greg Lindsay, convincingly put the airport at the centre of modern urban life.” ―The Economist
“To find yourself at La Guardia Airport, that repository of bad food, dim lighting, unsettlingly indistinct odors and too-short runways, is to be inclined toward embracing John D. Kasarda and Greg Lindsay and all they have to say about the future of travel and modern life. Kasarda, a professor in the business school at the University of North Carolina who has consulted with four White House administrations and numerous cities and governments, believes that something very different from La Guardia is transforming our world . . . Kasarda's theories are presented in the ambitious Aerotropolis: The Way We'll Live Next, which is written by [Greg] Lindsay, who as the journalist onboard fulfills the role of eager messenger . . . [He] flies around the world, conducting interviews, seeking evidence, translating Kasarda's technical jargon into a lively if sometimes flawed work of pop behavioral economics . . . Aerotropolis offers intriguing arguments.” ―Michael Powell, The New York Times Book Review
“An odd, fascinating new book… an enthralling and only intermittently dogmatic tour of some of the gigantic, no-context sites that globalization has created, such as the all-night flower auction in Amsterdam that gets roses from Kenya to Chicago before they've wilted, the FoxConn factory in China where iPods and iPhones are made, and the mega-hospital Bumrungrad in Bangkok, which performs cut-rate major surgery on the uninsured from all over the world.” ―Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker
“Fascinating and important work . . . Aerotropolis follows in the tradition of works such as Edge City (1992) that blend jargon-free scholarship with shoe-leather reporting to tell readers why they're living and working as they are . . . That Kasarda and Lindsay are onto something big seems beyond dispute.” ―Paul M. Barrett, Bloomberg Businessweek
“An essential guide to the twenty-first century.” ―Tom Vanderbilt, author of Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
“Thanks to the manifold effects of modern aviation, earth and sky are merging in our world faster and more thoroughly than most people know. But you won't be most people after reading Aerotropolis. Throw out your old atlas. The new version is here.” ―Walter Kirn, author of Up in the Air
“A fascinating window into the complex emergent urban future. This book is an extremely sophisticated, often devastatingly witty and ironic interpretation of what is possible over the next two decades. It is not science fiction. It is science and technology in action. The authors have one foot firmly planted in the possible and foreseeable.” ―Saskia Sassen, Professor, Columbia University, and author of Territory, Authority, Rights
“Aerotropolis presents a radical, futuristic vision of a world where we build our cities around airports rather than the reverse. This book ties together urbanism, global economics, international relations, sociology, and insights from adventures in places that aren't even on the map yet to present a plausible new paradigm for understanding how we relate to the skies. Perhaps the most compelling book on globalization in years.” ―Parag Khanna, Senior Fellow, New America Foundation, and author of How to Run the World
“Very few people realize how profoundly air transport is changing our cities, our economies, our social systems, and our systems of governance. If you want to be way ahead of the curve in understanding one of the most important drivers of change for the twenty-first century, read this book.” ―Paul Romer, Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
“Aerotropolis redraws the world map, using air routes to trace the new connections and competition between mega-regions that will shape the geography of the Great Reset. This lively, thought-provoking book is a must-read for anyone interested in how and where we will live and work in a truly global era.” ―Richard Florida, director of the Martin Prosperity Institute, University of Toronto, and author of The Great Reset
“Aerotropolis comprehensively explains the enormous effects modern aviation has on cities and countries around the world. It is a unique resource.” ―Frederick W. Smith, Chairman and CEO, FedEx Corporation
About the Author
John D. Kasarda , a professor at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina, has advised countries, cities, and companies about the aerotropolis and its implications. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Greg Lindsay has written for Time, BusinessWeek, and Fast Company. For one story he traveled around the world by airplane for three weeks, never leaving the airport while on the ground. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
A Couple of Magazine Articles Stitched Together
By mrcedarhill
The book presents an interesting thesis about the economic engine that newer airports can become. It also offers enough cautionary tales to ensure that readers don't come away thinking that concrete and a grader can buy happiness. Unfortunately, this book needed fact-checking and more thorough editing. It lacks coherent organization. With it, the book could sustain the loss of about one-third of its pages, which seem terribly redundant. The principal author intermitently adopts a first-person voice especially when retelling how he gathered his information, while the supposed lead author, Kasarda, is quoted in the second person as if he is an oracle on this topic. At times, the book seems a thinly veiled promotional tool for Kasarda's airport consultancy. There were several errors I bumped into, the most notable was the repeated misspelling of the late real estate developer Trammell Crow's name. A Google-equipped fact-checker could have solved thus problem. It made me wonder what else wasn't quite on point. At the end of the day, you've got a couple Atlantic monthly length pieces in hardcover.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
Unbalanced
By Amazon Customer
The book challenges us with its approach to the subject matter. It amounts to a 400+ page brochure about John Kasarda's work as a business consultant. He's obviously very bright and thoughtful, and Greg Lindsay writes articulately. However the book's overall style seems unique and well, uncomfortable. Lindsay is writing about Kasarda in the third person, discussing "Kasarda's plans" etc. Yet Kasarda is a co-author, suggesting a first person discussion, because the book is all about Kasarda's ideas guided by Kasarda's overall thoughts. Why didn't Kasarda write this himself? Or why didn't Lindsay write the book about Kasarda? Had Lindsay been the sole author, then he might have had the freedom to inject more objectivity into the discussion that really needs more balance, as discussed below.
What is an "aerotropolis?" The definition is made clear, but not until page 174. "An Aerotropolis is basically an airport-integrated region, extending as far as sixty miles from the inner clusters of hotels, offices, distribution and logistics facilities... the airport itself is really the nucleus of a range of `New Economy' functions," with the ultimate aim of bolstering the city's competiveness, job creation, and quality of life." Further, "it can be boiled down to three words: speed, speed, and speed." Speed gives us competitive advantages on a global scale. Therefore, the airport should be the center of any city, with all logistics, transportation facilities, warehouses, etc. serving the same function: logistical speed. The authors' message is reinforced a hundred times throughout the book. Nations, states, cities or corporations who don't adapt will be destroyed by speedier competitors. This is because "individual companies no longer compete: their entire supply chains do." Along with such supply chains come companies, jobs, economic develop and... entire cities. The authors present a number of case studies to reinforce their point.
Absent any mitigating issues, there's nothing wrong with their ideas. Capitalism is all about exploiting inefficiencies that others fail to see while rewarding those who realize the greater efficiencies. Airports certainly contribute significantly towards that due to their role in the supply chain.
However, when capitalism exploits inefficiencies to the point of exploiting human, social, or political rights, or exploiting the environment, then we might engage in some discussion about trade-offs. The book brings up these conflicts but defaults back to the benefits from capitalism's efficiencies. For example, the book extols the methods taken by the Chinese, Indian, and Persian Gulf nations. "Taxation is minimal, labor is disposable, and decision making is instant and irrevocable. They demand highways, railways, and runways, paying in cash. They don't hesitate, don't explain or second-guess themselves, and aren't about to let their citizens stand in the way." (p. 193). This theme is repeated throughout the book: to maximize capitalistic efficiencies and compete globally, it seems that we should dispense with labor rights, property rights, and possibly even constitutional rights. "Remember what they (the Chinese) said about democracy? It just gets in the way. This is how Foster's dragon (an aerotropolis in China) was built in five years flat, at a cost of ten thousand flattened homes. Multiply that by a hundred, and you have the initial human cost of China's aerotropoli." Further, we have the outright admission that "The aerotropolis and authoritarians go hand in hand... It's no accident Kasarda has found early adopters in the Middle East and China, followed close behind by Asian nations with a legacy of military rule..."
This is pretty alarming. Should we sacrifice property rights, a central tenet of our country's foundation, for Fed Ex to be as efficient as possible? Should we sacrifice democracy itself to compete more efficiently on a global scale with our authoritarian competitors in China? Should the consumer take priority over the citizen? It would seem so, since citizens who protest are simply "NIMBY's" standing in the way of progress and contributing to the very inefficiencies the corporations want to wipe out. Are new jobs that an aerotropolis might produce worth the costs to the community in terms of lost property, rights, pollution and congestion? Should we sacrifice our quality of life for the jobs an Aerotropolis might produce? Or should we accept the proposition that a job itself IS our quality of life, no matter what the cost to the community in terms of pollution, congestion, noise, etc. and no matter what the quality of the job is? This book gets close enough to these questions to raise them but then fails to go down that path. Perhaps that's beyond the scope of the book, but for a work that so unapologetically praises the benefits of aerotropoli, it seems only proper to devote space to a consideration of the liabilities. The authors should take a more balanced approach, even if the assets produced by an Aerotropolis outweigh the liabilities in the end. Of course, authoritarian governments don't ask these questions. It's no wonder the Chinese believe democracy just gets in the way.
We need a more meaningful discussion that looks at how to optimize the good brought about by airports while also realistically evaluating the trade-offs and constraints.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Good storytelling, thin theory
By HKG212
This is a strange book. For starters, the top-billing author, John Kassarda, didn't write a word, and indeed is mentioned or quoted only every several pages or so; even when he is, Lindsay (who actually wrote the book) seems to often cast subtle doubt on Kassarda's theories, as in the frequently-used "If Kassarda is right, ...". Then, while the book is chockfull of good anecdotal research, the evidence is awkwardly and haphazardly woven into a rather hazy overarching theory. One suspects that Linsday and the editors came to realize that but it was too late to chuck Kassarda and his brand from the cover.
Linsday is a journalist, and the book reads like an extended magazine piece. Breezy, well-crafted prose dotted with abundant statistics and meant-to-impress comparisons ("the up-front costs for infrastructure would start at $33 billion, more than the US originally earmarked for the reconstruction of Iraq"; Hainan is "the size of Belgium with the climate of Hawaii"; Beijing's new terminal "...could accommodate all of Heathrow's five terminals, with enough room left for a sixth") help make this an easy in-flight read. With an apparent rush to print, fact-checking was clearly back in coach while storytelling sat secure in the cockpit behind the armored door. For example, Lindsay contrasts America's mere 9 cities with population greater than 1 million with China's 125-150 such cities. The fact is, the Chinese draw municipal boundaries around entire metropolitan areas, and even what would be considered whole states (as is the case with Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing). Measured that way, the U.S. has 51 metropolitan areas with over 1 million inhabitants. China still has many more, but the drama is a bit deflated.
There are quite a few gaping holes in Kassarda's hypotheses. First of all, competitiveness of cities and regions is a function of many things beyond a good airport and a sprawling "aerotropolis". Seattle is in many ways more innovative and successful than Memphis, or for that matter Atlanta, despite having no "aerotropolis" and pretty weak air connectivity. And the world's most competitive and successful cities - New York, London, Tokyo - boast airports which at best can be described as functional, and no "aerotropoli" at all. There is little evidence that these cities are declining as a result.
In another omission, Kassarda and Lindsay fail to account for the fact that the majority of global trade, by far, is carried on water, and for obvious commercial reasons always will be. The rise of the Pearl River Delta, which Lindsay talks about at length, has much more to do with ports than airports.
Also curiously missing from the story are the airlines. No matter how good the hardware, airline networks are the software, and if airlines decide they cannot fly commercially to a city, or can no longer profitably operate a hub there, they will stop doing so, as half-empty airports terminals from Pittsburgh to Zhuhai illustrate. Even for cargo, it's pretty much a zero-sum game: not every city can be a cargo hub, as Subic Bay in the Philippines painfully learned when FedEx decamped to Guangzhou. For Kassarda, who has built a thriving consulting business advising governments and municipalities to build bigger airports and "airport cities", this trail of airport white elephants may be an inconvenient truth.
In the end, Kassarda's theory seems to boil down a couple of simple assertions: a good airport with good connectivity makes a city more competitive; some cities, by allocating large amounts of land near airports, may develop successful airport-related industries which benefit from the speed of aviation. Pretty trivial stuff, and hardly "the way we'll live next" as the cover bombastically proclaims.
Then there is the strange, retro-jet-age exuberance of it all. Anyone who actually flies a lot, like myself, must have read with a big chuckle Lindsay's enthusiastic closing account of his day trip to Chicago for a ballgame as a harbinger of things to come: "Today, it's opening day at Wrigley, and tomorrow it will be spring break for Chinese students in Hong Kong, Iranian reunions in Dubai, and breadwinners flying home on weekends to Mumbai." Environmental concerns aside, why would anyone want to spend 40 hours of their spring break on a plane (presumably in coach)?
Still, the book is an entertaining and often insightful read on the theme of globalization, with its most fascinating chapters (for example, on the flower trade and on medical tourism) offering original and sometimes provocative takes on issues much larger than air travel and "airport cities", like global supply chains, sustainability, and the future of health care in America.
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