Airport City Limits: A Critical Assessment of the Redevelopment of Berlin's Flughafen Schönefeld
Journal: Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Year: 2019

A large airport and its “airport city” can be a regional economic driver. Berlin—capital of a rich nation yet home to a stagnant economy—is building a new airport. The government is involved on many different levels, as it hopes this new airport, Berlin Brandenburg International, can spur economic development. The best and chosen site for this new airport is actually an old one, Schönefeld, yet old airports tend to be near settlements dense enough to cause substantial pushback from some of the n