He is the author of Airport Urbanism: Infrastructure and Mobility in Asia (University of Minnesota Press, 2016). Studying the expansion of international air traffic since 1970 and its implications for the planning and design of Asian cities, the book models a new understanding of urban space that fundamentally reconceptualizes the relationship between global mobility patterns, transport infrastructure, and urban form. Max’s research focuses on practical and theoretical approaches to infrastructure and mobility in the fields of architecture and urban design. Beyond that, his secondary interest in the history of landscape architecture interrogates the formation of periurban industrial landscapes in a variety of national contexts ranging from Germany to China.