The City As a Tangled Bank by Sir Terry Farrell

Author:Sir Terry Farrell
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781118487297
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2013-11-25T16:00:00+00:00

The most recent transport phenomenon to adapt and adjust cities has been the airport. This again is a kind of typology or meme, overlaid on to our city maps but invariably outside of the city because of the need for space, expansive land provision, flight paths, hangars and service areas. As John Kasarda and Greg Lindsay’s book Aerotropolis elaborates, airports have themselves become attractors so that a new kind of city has naturally grown around the early ones such as London’s Heathrow, New York’s JFK and Chicago’s O’Hare.4 Although at first sight these are highly specialised places for planes to take off, land and carry passengers within a high-tech setting, they have gradually accreted chapels, hospitals, living accommodation, training facilities, hotels, and subsequently – as people settled and grew their environment – town squares, high streets and shopping facilities. This was all, in many ways, unwittingly, unplanned. Kasarda predicts the ‘aerotropolis’ growing urban quarters, much as developments in transport technology changed cities in earlier centuries, claiming that ‘Airports will shape business location and urban development in the 21st century as much as highways did in the 20th century, railroads in the 19th and seaports in the 18th.’5 Indeed, the newer airports such as those in the Far East, are planned as complete cities from the beginning. We designed Incheon, in Korea’s capital, Seoul, for example, as a city from the outset. It did not accumulate its urban nature, it was recognised as being an urban thing from the start. Business is at its heart, conference hotels being planned simultaneously with a road and rail hub, and now the new adjacent city of Incheon is emerging – a true aerotropolis.

Farrell, London’s mainline stations, 1999

How the mainline stations were linked by the Circle Line. The world’s first underground railway line, its original section between Paddington and Farringdon was opened in 1863, with the rest following in 1884.

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