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Near the soon to be opened and fantastic Park at the Yards, there’s a lot of new low-impact development infrastructure. These bioretention areas should be a great example of the new kind of both urban and environmentally sustainable infrastructure can be. These are not ordinary tree boxes. Instead of draining into a standard storm sewer, these Continue reading Low impact development near the Navy Yard 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 Soccer in the Circle, from M.V. Jantzen The World Cup is underway. England in Roo-ins: The cup means large gatherings of fans and sweet commercials (even the older ones). Infrastructure: Jarrett Walker takes a look at some of the transit improvements for South Africa, building off the notion that large scale events like the World Cup can Continue reading Weekend Reading – The Group Stage 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 Courtesy of Infrastructurist, Rachel Maddow takes a tour of New York’s Second Ave Subway construction site, seeing a tunnel boring machine and other fun stuff:
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about Continue reading Rachel Maddow Digs Deep 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 WaPo infographic on NATM for Dulles Metro Curious about the tunnel progress for the Dulles Metro line? I ran across a WaPo infographic on the Dulles Metro line’s tunnel under the intersection of Routes 123 and 7 in Tysons Corner. This tunnel is being completed via the New Austrian Tunneling Method – the graphic explains Continue reading Links – burrowing, tunneling Spirit of Detroit, from Maia C …and I’m not just talking about salt, even though the Eastern Seaboard could use a lot of extra road salt right about now. There are a couple of very interesting bits up on the net recently about Detroit and the lessons it has for the rest of America, for our Continue reading Things we can take from Detroit Ever wonder where all that road salt comes from? A question that’s quite topical today. Mammoth has a post up on an operating salt mine beneath the city of Detroit. Detroit Salt Mine John Nystuen has a discussion of the legal implications, acquiring mineral rights for salt 1,000 feet below the surface of an active city. Continue reading Salt and infrastructure beneath the city  |
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