Harbourization

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Harbourization

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General Nature infrastructure
Location Sahr
Attendance Sahr


Harbourization refers to the process in some communities where the lack of aerial infrastructure discourages the use of large scale aircraft that cannot land in the water, encouraging the usage of flying boats. Broadly this is used as an analogy for instances where infrastructure developes around methods that were put in place due to a lack of previous infrastructure. The term originates from a 2184 article of the same name.

The phenomena originates from the development of seaplanes as the first domestically produced aircraft in Sahrland as population of the country mostly clinged to the coast like today. Small airfields were developed to meet the lower needs of the inland populations, but particularly large ones were economically unviable due to lack of large aircraft to service. This self repeating cycle was aided by the various conflicts of the time which only used light aircraft and hampered construction of new infrastructure.

The phrase harbourization has taken on life in language as a useful analogy.