How This Simple Landscaping Project Quiets an Airport’s Roar
Two years ago in the Netherlands , artistPaul de Kortdesigned an 81 - acre park near Amsterdam ’s Schiphol Airport . His designation ? To use nothing but landscaping to damp the haphazardness of airplanes . Such a project had never been attempted — and a crucial factor of the design was discovered almost by accident . I subsist about 15 knot from one of the busiest airports in America — Chicago O’Hare ....