Next Generation Infrastructure : principles for post-industrial public works. / txt
Hillary Brown.
- xv, 241p. ill. ; 27cm. book
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Contents : Foreword by David W, Orr xi -- Acknowledgments xv -- Chapter 1 Introduction : Bold Endeavors Needed 1 -- Chapter 2 Toward Infrastructural Ecologies : Interconnected, Multipurpose, and Synergistic Systems 17 -- Chapter 3 Greening Heat and Power : An Integrated Approach to Decarbonizing Energy 41 -- Chapter 4 Advancing Soft Path Water Infrastructure : Combined Constructed and Natural Systems 69 -- Chapter 5 Destigmatizing Infrastructure : Design of Community Friendly Facilities 97 -- Chapter 6 Creating Resilient Coastlines and Waterways : Hard and Soft Constructions 127 -- Chapter 7 Combating Water Stress and Scarcity : Augmented Sources and Improved Storage 149 -- Chapter 8 Ways Forward : Think Systematically, Experiment Locally 171 -- Notes 199 -- Index 233 --
How can our complex, interdependent utilities support an urbanizing world, subject to carbon constraints and the impacts of climate change ? How might these critical networks be made more efficient, less environmentally damaging, and more resilient ? Such questions are at the heart of the approaches and initiatives explored in Next Generation Infrastructure. Hillary Brown highlights hopeful examples and proposes five organizing objectives that, in the hands of decision makers and designers, will help bring about a future of multipurpose, low carbon infrastructure that is tightly coordinated with natural and social systems --
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