|
||||
|
Back in March, the New York Times featured DC WASA’s (now DC Water) new director, George Hawkins, talking about the challenges of dealing with aging water and sewer infrastructure in American cities. The piece lays out the challenges facing most American cities, currently resting on our laurels of the investments from previous generations: For decades, these Continue reading Where the water comes from Mammoth’s excellent series of posts covering any and all topics on The Infrastructural City recently touched on chapter 5 – Blocking All Lanes, the first of the book’s section on the fabric of this city of networked infrastructure. Mammoth notes a couple of big themes from the chapter, each with profound implications for how cities Continue reading Hacking the city CC image from nathansnider The Infrastructural City – Something I’m eagerly anticipating is a sort of on-line book club discussion of the infrastructural city, spearheaded by mammoth. Over the course of the next several months, mammoth will be coordinating an online discussion of The Infrastructural City: Networked Ecologies in Los Angeles (edited by Kazys Varnelis Continue reading Infrastructural and industrial spaces Via Matt Yglesias, a great chart from the recent Gold Medal hockey game between Canada and the US in Vancouver. When 2/3rds of the entire country is watching, you know it’s a big deal. This chart looks at the water consumption in Edmonton, Alberta over the course of the game – comparing it to the day Continue reading Water Conservation A series of (somewhat) tangentially related post/items/articles I’ve been meaning to mention here: 1. Security Theater – mammoth There are always tensions between openness and security, and cities like DC have plenty of examples of this – everything from bollards anchored in 6 feet of subterranean concrete to jersey barriers strewn in front of building entrances. Given Continue reading Infrastructure + Networks + Security |
||||
|
Copyright © 2013 City Block - All Rights Reserved |
||||
Recent Comments