Project status: In progress

Modern airports and growing cities are increasingly in conflict where airport-driven development and urban expansion are not coordinated. The primary role of this project is, from a multi-disciplinary perspective, to investigate and make an integrated response to four major interface issues of the new 'airport metropolis': economic development, land use planning, infrastructure and governance.

Economic Development occurs in the airport and its host region as a result of airport-centric activities. It may have direct, indirect, induced and catalytic impacts.
Land Use involves the geographical/geophysical resources of the airport and the region. Land use has both social and biophysical environmental impacts that are generally best managed by the cooperative use of Government land use plans and airport master plans, which incorporate development trends, existing land use patterns, land characteristics, identified human and physical characteristics of the land, and desired and possible future uses.
Infrastructure includes large-scale installations that connect and service commercial, industrial, residential and cultural nodes of the region. Typical elements are roads, railways, utilities, ports, airports, freight and service interchanges, and, of increasing importance, information and communication technology (ICT).
Governance refers to legislative arrangements and public and private institutionalised processes that have been designed or evolved to affect social structures and behaviours of individuals and organisations.

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