AIRPORT CITY (I): LAS VENTAJAS DE UNA ORDENACIÓN TERRITORIAL INTELIGENTE DE LOS ENTORNOS AEROPORTUARIOS.- LOS EJEMPLOS DE AMSTERDAM, MANCHESTER Y MEMPHIS.

¿Se puede favorecer la implantación de empresas en el entorno de una instalación aeroportuaria con una buena planificación territorial, exenciones fiscales, reducción de trámites administrativos y una oferta de súper-banda ancha de Internet? En Manchester, Memphis o Amsterdam han demostrado que sí.
In the past, airports were perceived simply as a place where aircraft, passengers and cargo arrived or departed, but this historic perception is fast giving way to a much broader, more encompassing concept known as the airport city. Today, we consider that an airport can do more than perform its traditional aeronautical services, that it can evolve new non-aeronautical commercial facilities, services and revenue streams, getting profit from the smart colonization and developing of the vacant land around the premises, and the strategic use of the extensive outlying areas for aviation-oriented businesses and their associated residential developments.