![]() ![]() This thesis focuses on the principles and relationships for land use planning and design of airports and their environs under the umbrella of Airport City concept. In its core, Airport City is located which functions as the traditional city center of Aerotropolis. Kasarda is regarded as an urban cluster with similar features to the traditional metropolitan structure. Accordingly, airports have grown into complex and multi-faced mega structures, offering space for longer runways and larger terminals, and accommodating a growing number of functions that have nothing related with aviation. In the last thirty years or so, airports have become clusters of not only transportation-related operational services but also commercial and business activities. In addition to being a complex system of facilities, airports are significant stimulators for economic activities in its catchment area. In modern times, similar prospects apply to cities with airports which provide competitive advantages for regional and urban development. In the past, coastal towns with adequate harbors grew and expanded quickly. The paper includes maps of several airport-linked SEZs to elucidate spatial aspects such as strategic locations and integration with surface transportation networks.Ĭities grow and prosper in relation with their transportation hubs. Examples include a 2,500 hectare SEZ in the new Imam Khomeini International Airport, and a tax free zone within the planned Tunisia Economic City which has been allocated a 90 square kilometre site including 13 kilometres of coastline for tourism development. The paper examines the spatial and regulatory interrelationship between airport linked SEZs and aerotropolis projects-airport centric developments designed to be aviation dependent and support airport growth. Freight oriented airport-linked SEZs include: the 95 square kilometre China-Belarus Industrial Park adjacent to Minsk Airport, SEZs with an aerospace component at Dholera Airport in India and OR Tambo Airport in South Africa and an aviation hub component of an economic zone encompassing U-Tapao Airport in Thailand. Recently announced funding and tax breaks for tourism SEZs in the Philippines is set to commence with resort development around the new San Vicente Airport. ![]() Tourism oriented airport-linked SEZs in SE Asia include several new Indonesian SEZs incorporating substantial stretches of coastline dotted with white sand beaches. In the UK, as a major increase in Business Rates looms over small businesses, firms locating in Enterprise Zones-many located adjacent to or encompassing airports, including Manchester, Blackpool, Luton and Newquay-receive a substantial Business Rate discount and other subsidies. ![]() This paper highlights a number of examples of new SEZs, which benefit major transnational firms, foreign investors and real estate developers. A new generation of airport-linked special economic zones-characterised by tax breaks, other incentives, and government provision of supportive infrastructure including surface transportation networks-is an increasingly significant factor a global race to the bottom on tax. ![]()
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