Ocean International Airport
With one of the smallest and busiest airports in the country, San Diego is thinking about upgrading its facilities. One idea is to build a new airport on the ocean.
The airport would actually be a large floating structure located about 10 miles off the coast. The Infrastructurist gives the low-down on the idea.
"In the midst of this pickle, along comes a fellow named Adam Englund. He's a local lawyer who studied international law at Cambridge and has long nurtured a fascination with the idea of floating cities. He's got an idea–a $20 billion business plan, even.
It's so incredibly simple, says Englund. We live next to all this open, watery space. Let's put the airport in the ocean."
Published on Thursday, October 22, 2009 in
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