| 书目名称 | Next Generation Infrastructure | | 副标题 | Principles for Post- | | 编辑 | Hillary Brown | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Includes five key principles of next-generation infrastructure that provide a clear roadmap for improving our failing systems.Highlights global examples of successful multi-purpose, resilient, and low | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .The 2007 bridge collapse in Minneapolis-St. Paul quickly became symbolic of the debilitated interstate highway system—and of what many critics see as America’s disinvestment in its infrastructure. The extreme vulnerability of single-purpose, aging infrastructure was highlighted once again when Hurricane Sandy churned its way across the northeast United States. Inundating New York City’s vital arteries, floodwaters overwhelmed tunnels and sewers; closed bridges; shut down mass transit; curtailed gas supplies; and destroyed streets, buildings, and whole neighborhoods..Next Generation Infrastructure. takes a critical but ultimately hopeful look at how our infrastructure networks can be made more efficient, less environmentally damaging, and more resilient. Brown argues that, if we’re to chart a course for global sustainability, we must begin to design, regulate, and finance infrastructure that decouples carbon-intensive and ecologically harmful technologies from critical infrastructure systems, namely the essential systems for contemporary society: water, wastewater, power, solid waste, transportation, and communication. The book highlights hopeful examples from around the world, ran | | 出版日期 | Book 2014Latest edition | | 关键词 | Climate change; Global sustainability; Infrastructure; Resilience; Urbanism; water quality and water poll | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-202-0 | | isbn_ebook | 978-1-61091-202-0 | | copyright | Hillary Brown 2014 |
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