Airport Cities in U.S. Metropolitan Context
Airport Cities in U.S. Metropolitan Context

Author: Stephen Appold

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Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

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Airports have long been a focus of urban planners. Airport cities, one of the three possible means of addressing the need for rapid airport access, are held to have emerged out of the aviation age. Systematic research into their prevalence and nature is lacking. Thus, airport city planning remains an ad hoc process without theoretical or empirical guidelines. Using Census 2000 CTPP data for the 51 most populous U.S. metropolitan areas, the size and composition of airport area employment are placed in the context of three elements of urban form which characterize metropolitan spatial patterns: cones, corridors, and clusters. The areas surrounding major airports support significant aggregations of employment which are, on average, half as large as the corresponding CBDs. Transportation-providing employment is by far the most heavily represented sector. Transportation-supporting employment, especially wholesaling, is also represented. Transportation-using employment, such as producer services, is in nearly as much evidence as it is in other non-CBD urban sub-centers. These results provide a set of grounded expectations for those planning airport area development or re-development.

Airports, Cities and Regions
Airports, Cities and Regions

Author: Sven Conventz

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-08-27

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 113512728X

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Since the emergence of urban systems, cities have developed in a mutually inter-dependent process of socio-economic dynamics and transportation linkages. In recent years, Airports worldwide have stepped beyond the stage of being pure infrastructure facilities while the complex dynamics that are taking place at and around international airports represent a crucial element in the post-industrial reorganisation of urban and regional systems. Airports are increasingly recognized as general urban activity centres; that is, key assets for cities and regions as economic generators and catalysts of investment in addition to being critical components of efficient city infrastructure. This book brings together contributions from renowned academic scholars and world leading practitioners to discuss insights gained from theory and practice. The first collection of papers reflects upon the general role and future of airports as well as their specific contribution to competitive advantages within a fast changing business and economic landscape. The second group of contributions ask about the role airports play within the innovation process that is inherently centred on generating and sharing knowledge. The third section of papers investigates the drivers of real estate developments on airport land and in the close vicinity of airports.

The Impact of Airports on U.S. Urban Employment Distribution
The Impact of Airports on U.S. Urban Employment Distribution

Author: Stephen Appold

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Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

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This paper assesses the influence of airports on the distribution of employment within 51 large U.S. metropolitan areas by placing that influence within the context of three important elements of urban spatial structure: centers, corridors, and clusters plus the “favored quarter.” Tract-level Census Transportation Planning Package data for 2000 are analyzed using spatial regression models for each metropolitan area. The resulting airport-anchored distance decay parameters for each metropolitan area are regressed on a series of factors which could explain variation among regions. Central cities have a varying, but generally strong, effect on the distribution of metropolitan employment, as do highways. Employment subcenters and favored quarters had less certain but generally theoretically consistent impacts. The impact of airports on the distribution of metropolitan employment was weaker and more variable among regions. The impact of airports on spatial structure was negatively correlated with that of central cities, suggesting a trade-off between central and airport cities.

The Extent and Reasons for U.S. Airport City Development
The Extent and Reasons for U.S. Airport City Development

Author: Stephen Appold

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Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

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Airport cities - concentrations of employment - may have emerged near the major airports of large metropolitan areas. As the U.S. economy is nearly three times as air-intensive as it was in the 1950s, the “aerotropolis” thesis holds that airport cities are a direct consequence of increased air-intensity. The “urban land” thesis holds that airport cities are artifacts of land use changes brought about by metropolitan growth and employment suburbanization. Analysis using Census small area employment data for the 51 largest U.S. metropolitan regions found airport city employment to be one-third to one-half as large as that in CBDs, depending upon the spatial operationalization used. The size of airport city employment was unrelated to metropolitan aviation-intensity but was negatively related to distance from the CBD. The sectors represented indicate that airport cities are comprised of transportation-providing employment, some transportation-supporting employment, but not the concentration of transportation-using employment central to the aerotropolis thesis.

Developing Airport Systems in Asian Cities
Developing Airport Systems in Asian Cities

Author: Asian Development Bank

Publisher: Asian Development Bank

Published: 2022-12-01

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 929269913X

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Asia’s emerging and growing megacities are expected to handle a large volume of air traffic flows for regional, national, and local economic development in wider production networks. In some phases of development, major capital investments to improve airport capacity and accessibility within megacities are required. This report reviews urban policies on airport development and investment in airport infrastructure in Asian megacities, analyzes the influence of airport system development on spatial transformation of megacities, and offers policy options to promote economic competitiveness of growing and emerging megacities.

Airports, Cities, and the Jet Age
Airports, Cities, and the Jet Age

Author: Janet R. Bednarek

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-08-31

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 3319311956

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This book explores the relationship between cities and their commercial airports. These vital transportation facilities are locally owned and managed and civic leaders and boosters have made them central to often expansive economic development dreams, including the construction of architecturally significant buildings. However, other metropolitan residents have paid a high price for the expansion of air transportation, as battles over jet aircraft noise resulted not only in quieter jet engine technologies, but profound changes in the metropolitan landscape with the clearance of both urban and suburban neighborhoods. And in the wake of 9/11, the US commercial airport has emerged as the place where Americans most fully experience the security regime introduced after those terrorist attacks.