Your average metropolitan airport is on a desolate tract of land far from the city’s center. But that doesn’t mean past urban designers didn’t try to incorporate airfields into cities’ layouts. Here are some fanciful urban aerodromes of yore.
John Ptak at Ptak Science Books has done a round-up of past urban airports. Some of them are hilariously impractical (not to mention downright dangerous), but hey, all of them beat paying out the nose in cab fare.
[Via Ptak. Thanks John!]
Inner-City Circular Airports – October 18, 1919 from Illustrated London News.
William Zeckendorf’s Rooftop Airport – Life Magazine, March 18 1946
The Thames Airport – January 1934 from Popular Science Monthly.
