Aeroporto come riserva

In the past 200 years, the system has embraced a new means of transport every 50 years or so: barges, trains, autos and airplanes. All of these have significantly influenced territorial transformations and urban developments. However, airports are specifically manifesting an earlier obsolescence that brings a complexity of problems not solely related to mobility and transport systems. These spaces can be kept as a reserve for uses that we don’t know yet. Some destinies may be opened, and sometimes the on-hold state generates unexpected uses. Maybe there will be an aviation use of a different kind in the future, which is not predictable now. Maybe there will be a form of energy production that we can’t even think about now that will emerge in a few decades and which needs large spaces. So, if an airfield is in an area with, for example, a lot of urbanization pressure and demand for urban development, it can be probably reused. But if it is not, there maybe one option would be not to reuse or recycle them but keep them as a landscape reserve.