Show Notes

Unfrozen interviews Mark Vanhoenacker, a commercial airline pilot and author of Imagine a City and Skyfaring. A regular contributor to the New York Times and the Financial Times, he was trained as a historian and started in business before beginning flight training in 2001. He now flies the Boeing 787 Dreamliner from London to cities around the world.


Intro/Outro: “Flying,” by The Beatles


Discussed:


Calvino’s Invisible Cities


Holiday Inn and Suites, Pittsfield, Mass.


Empire State Plaza, Albany


John Hancock Tower, 200 Clarendon, Boston


James C Scott – Seeing Like a State


Aerotropolises, and/or airport terminals and fringes we like:


- The Circle, Zurich


- The Squaire, Frankfurt


- The Jewel, Changi, Singapore


- Harmondsworth Moor, Hillingdon, London – home of a barn built in 1426, which has a view of the Heathrow control tower


- AeroCity, Delhi


- Virgin Clubhouse, Heathrow


- Schiphol, Amsterdam


- Kastrup, Copenhagen


- Arlanda, Stockholm


- Vancouver


Ways to make aviation fuel green, The Economist, 17 August 2022


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