Stephen J. Appold
Airport cities as imagined spaces and real places: Implications for employment surrounding the planned Poland Central Airport Urban Development Issues, vol. 68(2), 7–26. https://doi.org/10.51733/udi.2020.68.13
Keywords: aerotropolis, airport city, employment location, urban spatial structure
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ABSTRACT
Airport city literature often imagines a bright new future of economic dynamism and employment generation for localities that invest in infrastructure. However, planners need to prepare for the employment and traffic that will realistically result. Using Census 2017 tract-level LODES data for the 51 largest U.S. metropolitan areas, airport cities – agglomerations of employment anchored by airports – are placed in the context of metropolitan spatial form in order to inform discussions surrounding the planned Poland Central Airport, specifically addressing the prospects for the emergence of an airport city on and surrounding that site. The U.S. experience suggests that major airports anchor significant concentrations of employment which average one-third the size of the respective CBDs and that, airport cities, like other urban sub-centers, develop primarily as cities expand outward rather than as a direct consequence of air transportation. The findings suggest that there may be less demand for airport city business sites and that demand may manifest itself later than the estimates discussed by journalists.
Airport city literature often imagines a bright new future of economic dynamism and employment generation for localities that invest in infrastructure. However, planners need to prepare for the employment and traffic that will realistically result. Using Census 2017 tract-level LODES data for the 51 largest U.S. metropolitan areas, airport cities – agglomerations of employment anchored by airports – are placed in the context of metropolitan spatial form in order to inform discussions surrounding the planned Poland Central Airport, specifically addressing the prospects for the emergence of an airport city on and surrounding that site. The U.S. experience suggests that major airports anchor significant concentrations of employment which average one-third the size of the respective CBDs and that, airport cities, like other urban sub-centers, develop primarily as cities expand outward rather than as a direct consequence of air transportation. The findings suggest that there may be less demand for airport city business sites and that demand may manifest itself later than the estimates discussed by journalists.
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