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An outlying location transformed into prime real estate by the arrival of aerial transportation options and convenient drone delivery.
The skyburb’s new arrivals rave about the “local” boutiques that now offer drone delivery.
Does it ring true?
From the future, or already here?
Sky + suburb. The streetcar built the first suburbs; the highway extended these and built the out-of-town mall. Drone deliveries and eVTOLs (the long-fabled flying cars) will soon redraw urban topography once more by bringing city-center convenience to fringe neighborhoods and sending their value soaring.
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