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Survey Says: Invest in Infrastructure
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Area residents agree that public infrastructure is deteriorating in southeast Michigan, but differ sharply on how to address the issue, according to a survey conducted in 2012.[read more]
Infrastructure Push with Obama's $40bn Fix-It-First Plan
Obama’s plan, which would need congressional approval, also proposes attracting private investment by pairing federal, state, and local governments with private capital, in what’s being called the “Rebuild America Partnership”.[read more]
Forging Partnerships for National Infrastructure Solutions
public-private partnerships
All across America, communities have huge obstacles to overcome as they struggle to provide reliable water in the face of aging infrastructure, growing demand and the increasing complexity of water management.[read more]
Place Making, Place Breaking
I've had lots of discussions about 'place' and 'placemaking' over the last few weeks. We've explored questions about the relationships of culture to planning and community development. We drew on a number of approaches but focussed in on the particular school of participatory cultural planning involving mapping local cultural resources.[read more]
It’s Our Infrastructure that Kills Us
UK DOT statistics on vehicle/pedestrian collisionsWhen a car and a person collide, survival is all about speed. Almost everyone survives getting hit by a car going 20 miles per hour; at 30, survival is a bit better than a coin toss at 55 percent. Only 15 percent of people survive a crash at 40 miles per hour. Novato’s main roads are...[read more]
Germany's 'Coal Pit' Reinvents Itself
Located in the middle of the Ruhr region, Bochum is colloquially known as "der Pott," or "the coal pit." Generations of Germans have grown up to think of it as a place filled with coal dust and poisonous fumes, smokestacks and gritty miners’ towns and the roar and glow of blast furnaces. No place embodies the Ruhr’s faded industrial glory and recent woes more than the Zollverein mining compound in the city of Essen.[read more]
Infographic: America’s Crumbling Infrastructure
Source: Carinsurance.org[read more]
Critical Infrastructure Repairs: Is there a silver lining?
Infrastructure demands are often like one of those items that are slotted on a book’s back pages due to its lack of star-power appeal. Then a disaster happens, like the Aug. 1, 2007 collapse of the I-35W Bridge in Minneapolis, killing 13 people with 145 injured. Now, the US is estimated to have over $60 billion in infrastructure repairs ahead of it.[read more]
Aging Infrastructure and creating walkable communities
Is resistance to change the main obstacle holding up retrofitting infrastructure?[read more]
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“I agree I think that the nature of human interaction and involvement depends on the nature of the actual facility itself. Getting people in and around fossil fuel burning power plants is seen as a security risk, but that still leaves many components of our infrastructure that could benefit from being noticed (and that citizens could benefit from noticing). I think of examples like John ...”
“I thinks it's provocative. In Florida, we were given tours of muncipal water treatment facilities as children, less so access to energy facilities. There is a cogeneration facility at MIT that sits comfortably in the urban context, as thousands pass by daily. But I'm always concerned that critical systems and humans should not mix for the most part. Educational programs may make the same point ...”