William Schwartz

Airports and their Neighbors

Initially overshadowed by the celebrity of aircrafts, and more recently dismissed as generic, peripheral, and non-places, airports have begun intrinsically influencing and shaping our cities, at times even catalyzing the construction of entirely new ones, those organized around values of speed, competition and finance capital – a trend which has fueled further city-making offshoots, each competing for the future shape of our cities. In such a light, it has never been a better time to ask one another if we share these values, and what exactly the role of the city and our place within it is?

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Airports and their Neighbors