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How do you prevent urban sprawl? Researchers look to a program in New Mexico for an answer.
The US wants to invest in more infrastructure to handle our rainfall and melted snow. Stormwater credits could help cut costs and protect the environment.
America’s drinking water infrastructure is aging and needs billions of dollars in upgrades. Two extension educators urge consumers to monitor their water and have it tested if they suspect problems.
Congressional inability to devise a health care plan for the US is not the only impediment to good health care. Contaminated water pipes and old bridges are also roadblocks.
The American Society of Civil Engineers gives US infrastructure a D+. What is it that we’re doing wrong?
How might we, and our nation’s roads and highways, need to change as autonomous vehicles become more ubiquitous? We know a lot of the answers, but not all of them.
Many Americans live in transit deserts – areas where demand for transit exceeds the supply. To fix these gaps, we need to find and map them so agencies can add transit options in the right places.
Since the 1990s, the supply of deeply subsidized housing has decreased as the US population and need for housing have increased. Trump’s proposed cuts to HUD won’t help.
Textbooks were once a major piece of educational infrastructure. But as digital content expands, a new kind of ‘textbook’ is improving the quality of K-12 instruction.
It’s been 80 years since this beloved landmark opened to San Francisco traffic. In the interim, technology has advanced – is there a better way to span this strait?
When planning major infrastructure investments, it’s important to know which road, freight and information networks are most important – and which proposals might make things worse, not better.
Trump has pledged to invest big in infrastructure. An analysis shows the electric grid will need hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade just to keep things as they are.
Top contributors
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Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Research Scientist, The University of Texas at Austin
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Professor of Architecture, Director of the Metropolitan Design Center, and Dayton Hudson Chair in Urban Design, University of Minnesota
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Professor and Eugene M. Isenberg Chair in Integrative Studies, UMass Amherst
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Professor of Architecture and Co-Founder of Global Health Equity, University at Buffalo
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Associate Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society and The Polytechnic School; Co-Director Center for Smart Cities and Regions, Arizona State University
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Associate Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Sustainable Engineering, Arizona State University
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Associate Professor of Economics, University of Oklahoma
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Assistant Professor of Community and Regional Planning and Director, Urban Information Lab, The University of Texas at Austin
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M.S. Candidate, Community and Regional Planning, The University of Texas at Austin
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Extension Educator, Water Resources, Penn State
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Extension Educator, Renewable Natural Resources, Penn State
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Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, West Virginia University
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Graduate Research Assistant, West Virginia University
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Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Vanderbilt University
