Photographs of the aerotropolis, post-modern cities built around airports

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Should the airport be the hub of the city?

According to photographer Giulio Di Sturco, the post-modern city is one of the aerotropolis, where the city, business, entertainment, and nature activities are all centered around the airport.

Di Sturco’s ongoing project Aerotropolis, The Way We Will Live Next explores the emergence of globalized architecture and generic spaces happening in Singapore, Bangkok, and Songdo, South Korea.

โ€œThese cities capture the breadth of themes running through civilization, from the re-appropriation of the natural landscape to our unquestioning faith in technology, set in the backdrop of architecture refined in elegance and logic,โ€ writes Di Sturco.

โ€œIt is the post-modern city. A vision, or perhaps a mirage, it is a window of opportunities to solve the dilemma of modernity: reconciling economic development and sustainable growth.โ€

Gardens by the Bay, a nature park spanning 101 hectares of reclaimed land in central Singapore. โ€˜Its sci-fi interiors are nature reimagined, nurtured to fill the vast hangars of super-modernityโ€™ From Aerotropolis, The Way We Will Live Next ยฉ Giulio Di Sturco
Bangkok International Suvarnabhumi Airport (BKK) is the gateway for Southeast Asia. It has the worldโ€™s tallest free-standing control tower (434 feet), and the worldโ€™s fourth largest single-building airport terminal (6,060,000 square feet). From Aerotropolis, The Way We Will Live Next ยฉ Giulio Di Sturco
New Songdo International Business District is a compelling aerotropolis strategically located just over 7 miles from Incheon International Airport. From Aerotropolis, The Way We Will Live Next ยฉ Giulio Di Sturco