Today’s New York Times magazine is all about infrastructure. The stories cover Internet data centers, high-speed rail, an urban plan for Paris, and prisons.
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aging infrastructure
A new website MyCommuteSucks.org launched last Friday on National Bike to Work Day. The site is designed to aggregate complaints about the state of transportation infrastructure in the United States, and to help commuters redirect their rage. The aggregation of complaints about potholes, driving conditions, long waits, and lack of alternative transportation options is meant [...]
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Blueprint America is an ongoing effort to document America’s aging infrastructure on public radio and public television. The latest program Road to the Future is set to air on Wednesday, May 20 on PBS. This installment on growth and development looks at Denver, Portland and New York City to outline how each has charted their [...]
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Perhaps you’ve seen the IBM, CISCO and General Electric ads and dialogue regarding Smart Infrastructure. These initiatives are aimed at combining infrastructure maintenance and management with communications and sensors, and the New York Times just published a piece that likens the market opportunity to all of the Internet. “In the mid-1990s, the Internet took off [...]
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It makes sense that cities are the places where we can best reduce our impacts on the planet, and now there’s a study that quantifies the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and energy use from buildings, home heating, and transportation for suburban and urban areas of metro Toronto. The study by researchers at the University of [...]
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Texas Watchdog, a news gathering site that scrutinizes government action and urges government transparency, has mapped the approved TxDOT spending in the state. The searchable map has county-by-county spending totals, and a searchable database. While none of the funds are specifically slated for the proposed I-69 U.S. to Mexico highway, much of the road resurfacing [...]
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Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class wrote an in-depth story for the March 2009 issue of The Atlantic regarding How the Crash will Reshape America. The piece insists that we need to adapt a more concentrated geography for the United States to recover and prepare for its next wave of growth. [...]
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Today, Maryland’s governor Martin O’Malley launched a website powered with ESRI technology that uses GIS analysis and maps to show where the recovery money is going in his state. The program integrates with the popular StateStat, GreenPrint and BayStat sites that each have a strong mapping component. StateStat is the site that monitors state agencies, [...]
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Obama made mention of Xcel Energy’s SmartGridCity while signing the stimulus package. I wrote an overview of this effort in October, outlining the need for more detailed and accurate geospatial data. Read this feature on V1 Magazine.
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After much deliberation a $789 Billion plan has been agreed upon. The final plan retains infrastructure funds, but cuts some funds for healthcare and education. Projects could begin within 90 days.
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