{"product_id":"aerotropolis-9780141035222","title":"Aerotropolis","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn D Kasarda\u003c\/b\u003e is Kenan Distinguished Professor of Management and Director of the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at the University of North Carolina. He has worked with multinational firms such as FedEx, Lufthansa, DHL and Bank of America and been an advisor to airports around the globe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGreg Lindsay\u003c\/b\u003e has been a senior correspondent at Inside.com and contributing writer to \u003ci\u003eFortune. \u003c\/i\u003eReporting for \u003ci\u003eAdvertising Age\u003c\/i\u003e, he crisscrossed the globe for three weeks without stepping outside the airports where he touched down. Greg is a contributing writer to \u003ci\u003eFast Company\u003c\/i\u003e and editor-at-large at \u003ci\u003eAdvertising Age.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFascinating * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eProvocative * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eDazzling ... \u003ci\u003eAerotropolis \u003c\/i\u003epoints out that we can still address the oldest needs but in new and liberating ways * Time *\u003cbr\u003eFascinating and important ... blend[s] jargon-free scholarship with shoe-leather reporting to tell readers why they're living and working as they are ... Kasarda and Lindsay are onto something big * Bloomsberg Businessweek *\u003cbr\u003eThe closest thing to a real-world vision to rival that of [H. G.] Wells ... a mind-expanding ride that reminds us, once again, that humanity needs no apocalypse to reinvent itself * World Politics Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAerotropolis\u003c\/i\u003e redraws the world map ... This lively, thought-provoking book is must reading for anyone interested in how and where we will live and work in a truly global era -- Richard Florida (author of THE GREAT RESET)\u003cbr\u003eThrilling ... the authors are undoubtedly right * Wall Street Journal *\u003cbr\u003eIf you want to be way ahead of the curve in understanding one of the most important drivers of change for the 21st century, read this book -- Paul Romer (founder of Charter Cities)\u003cbr\u003eFascinating ... The brave new world is on the way, and it's coming in by air * Kirkus Reviews *\u003cbr\u003eAn insightful, lavishly researched account, full of the micro-data of interconnectedness: the far-flung factories that produce our computers and flat-screen televisions, the state of the art hospitals in Thailand angling for Western customers priced out of the American health care system * Los Angeles Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eA prismatic display of the future of the global economy through a sharp and revealing new lens. It makes the mind travel * Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Review *\u003cbr\u003eRequired reading for economists, business studies students, architects, urban planners, sociologists - and more than a few novelists and essayists * Independent *\u003cbr\u003eFascinating ... enthralling * New Yorker *\u003cbr\u003eA fascinating window into the complex emergent urban future. This book is an extremely sophisticated, often devastatingly witty and ironic, interpretation of what is possible over the next two decades -- Saskia Sassen (author of TERRITORY, AUTHORITY, RIGHTS)\u003cbr\u003eThrow out your old atlas. The new version is here -- Walter Kirn (author of UP IN THE AIR)\u003cbr\u003eKasarda ... and Lindsay convincingly put the airport at the centre of modern urban life * Economist *\u003cbr\u003eHighly recommended * Library Journal *","brand":"Penguin Random House Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55534259372375,"sku":"9780141035222","price":15.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780141035222.jpg?v=1792586147","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/aerotropolis-9780141035222","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}