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The Green Airport.(Brief Article)
Adapted from engineer Jim Starry's design, featured in "Airports and Cities: Can They Coexist?" From July/August 2001 issue of World Watch Magazine
It's Monday morning and you've got to catch an 8 o'clock flight. No problem: you live next door to a StarrPort, named after designer Jim Starry, which occupies only a third of the area of old-fashioned airports. You leave home and 10 minutes later enter one of four corner entrances to the garage. You take an elevator nine floors up, past a gym and a convention center, to the check-in counters. When your flight is called, you head up to a boarding gate on the roof.
At old airports, planes wasted a lot of fuel, and pumped out loads of exhaust, as they taxied from gate to runway. At the StarrPort, the plane takes ...
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