Airport City Phenomena
26 May 2002 - 5:00am
A nation of nervous travelers has yet to contemplate the other knee-quaking environmental and urban consequences of our fly-drive society.
Jane Holtz Kay, the author of Asphalt Nation, argues that a nation of nervous travelers has yet to contemplate the other knee-quaking environmental and urban consequences of our fly-drive society, including growing sprawl around airports. In her piece for the Elm Street Writers Group, Ms. Kay reports that runaway airport expansion has resulted in 'airport city phenomena.'
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A Runway to Sprawl
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Michigan Land Use Institute, May 26, 2002
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