Aerotropolis: Airport-driven city

TODAY, we live in a world of what used to be impossible. It is a world that Leonardo da Vinci and renaissance men before us have dreamt of: flying men. It was just once but a thought to build contraption and mechanics that would allow men to soar through the sky, and travel the world faster. More than just a dream, there was a sense of practicality for air transport. When Ferdinand Magellan circumnavigated the world and arrived on the shore of what would be called the Philippine Islands, generally people of the West feared the Galleons that traveled the Asia Pacific. While there is the sense of adventure and discovery, one must be prepared to face that tragedy was relatively high while voyaging the high seas: tragedy either from shipwreck or spread of disease.

In the onset of the 21st century, the two-year travel of the renaissance cities was reduced to 13-hour flights in crossing western to the eastern world. The world certainly became smaller, as technological innovation for airplanes prospered. Today, we are living in the future cities.