Tag: Infrastructure
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Loading…In an Age of Climate Change, How Do We Cope with Floods?
The deaths in the Texas Hill Country are a tragic testament to the force of a raging river. Flood-stricken Vermont has a radical plan to counter the threat it faces.
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Bicycle graveyards: why do so many bikes end up underwater?
Every year, thousands of bikes are tossed into rivers, ponds, lakes and canals. What’s behind this mass drowning?
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Rebuilding the Maze
After a crucial section of a California freeway collapsed, this formidable construction boss pulled off one of the fastest, riskiest, most high-stakes reconstructions in U.S. history.
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The magic of through running
Commuter trains often stop at the edge of cities. Short tunnels can link them up, creating metro networks for a fraction of the cost of building them from scratch.
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How to redraw a city
Japan faced some of the world’s toughest planning problems. It solved them by letting homeowners replan whole neighborhoods privately by supermajority vote.