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Over at , one of the authors of , a book on how the “airport-city” is “the way we’ll live next.”

As the world becomes more interconnected and globalization rises, the book posits, these new instant cities will be in higher demand. China and Saudi Arabia, for example, have already begun to “roll out” these kinds of cities at the drop of a hat, Manaugh notes.

The cities are spurred by economic need, almost built by corporations for corporations. Lindsay even imagines that some of these cities could be completely void of politics. No mayor, no government, nothing.

From the interview, Lindsay:

I would describe the aerotropolis as any city that has a closer relationship to the air, and to other cities accessible through the air, than to its immediate hinterlands. It鈥檚 a city that was basically invented because of the necessities of air travel.

Dubai, to me, is a perfect example of that. Thirty years ago, of course, there was nothing there; Dubai had little oil and even fewer people. But, basically through sheer will, it used its airport and its airline, Emirates, to build itself into a hub. It transformed itself legally and regulatory-wise, and made itself the freezone of the Middle East鈥攁nd the pleasure den, and all the things it鈥檚 become.