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Cities and drinking Water - rivers, ground water, policy and climate change
Highways, Cities, Roads and Neighborhoods, Development
A collection about the Design of Cities , Roads and Walkable Spaces
articles and videos looking at New York City, and the infrastructure and policy decisions needed to make subway systems work
articles and videos looking at Metro and Subway transportation around the world
a collection of articles and resources looking at the Hotel and Hospitality Business
European Union - integration, investment, infrastructure
a collection of articles and videos about London, England (UK)
Water & Electricity in South Africa
a collection of articles and resources looking at The Challenge of Affordable Housing in Fast-Growing Urban Centers
Land value tax - idea to reform taxes to improve cities, Affordable Housing
a collection of articles and resources looking at The Challenge of Affordable Housing in Fast-Growing Urban Centers
a collection of articles and resources looking Taxes, Affordable Housing, and Fast-Growing Urban Centers
San Francisco - government, policy issues
San Francisco and the Challenge of Affordable Housing in Fast-Growing Urban Centers
articles and videos looking at drones, ai and military applications
A collection of articles about The Underline project in Miami - real estate, development, park
Transit, and public transportation in Miami - alternatives, innovation, ideas
A collection about City Bus transportation in Miami, USA
a collection of articles about Uber - and public transportation systems, policy, cities
a collection of articles and resources looking at efforts in Reusing Old Buildings in Cities and Suburbs
Suburbs, Cities and Economic development
a collection of articles and resources looking at Suburbs and Affordable Housing in Cities
a collection of articles and resources looking at trend toward Shared Housing
Outsourcing, Near-shoring - Globalization and Supply Chains, Logistics and global shipping
Regulation, red-tape and Infrastructure Investment in the USA
a collection of articles about Uber - trouble, legal, company culture
a collection of articles and videos about Bike and Scooter Sharing (businesses)
High speed trains - technology, innovation
Shippo - Supply Chains, Logistics and global shipping

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Article

Road Rage, ‘Zipper Merging’ and a Stress-Free Path Through Traffic - The New York Times

Experts love the zipper merge, but drivers are just as likely to see it as others rudely cutting their turn in line. (2021)


Article

This Is Why Your Holiday Travel Is Awful - POLITICO

The long, sordid history of New York’s Penn Station shows how progressives have made it too hard for the government to do big things—and why, belie... (2021)


Article

Opinion | California Is Making Liberals Squirm - The New York Times

If progressivism can’t work there, why should the country believe it can work anywhere else? (2021)


Article

This new overnight train to Croatia is already so popular that it's running daily

A new overnight train service that was launched last month between Prague and the Croatian coast is so popular that it will now run every night. (2020)


Article

13 cities across Europe will be linked with new night train routes

European railway giants have announced a major upgrading of night rail services that will link thirteen cities across the continent. (2020)


Article

U.K. Has a Bold New Plan for High-Speed Rail

Faster north-south train service around London could decrease reliance on cars and planes. But northerners say their more dire transportation needs... (2020)


Article

Rio's Olympics Line 4 Subway Mess - CityLab

Critics say the $3.1 billion Line 4 project prioritizes access to wealthy neighborhoods, neglecting the rest of the city’s transit needs. (2019)


Article

Once Threatened, Europe’s Night Trains Rebound - The New York Times

With growing concern over the environmental impact of flying, sleeper train service, long considered old-fashioned and nostalgic, is picking up ste... (2019)


Article

Why Is American Mass Transit So Bad? It's a Long Story - CityLab

Streetcar, bus, and metro systems have been ignoring one lesson for 100 years: Service drives demand. (2019)


Article

New Ideas for Paris’s Outdated Infrastructure - CityLab

'Reinvent Paris II' Is for a Post-Car Future. After a criticized first installment, the city's design competition has a wider talent pool and a fai... (2019)


Article

‘Breaches Everywhere’: Flooding Bursts Midwest Levees, and Tough Questions Follow - The New York Times

Hundreds of miles of levees in the Midwest have been overwhelmed by the floods, leaving “Swiss cheese” infrastructure and reigniting a flood contro... (2019)


Article

Check Out the Cheaper, Greener Future of France’s High-Speed Trains - CityLab

Take a look at the trains that will modernize France’s rail fleet and prepare the national provider to take on its first-ever competitors. (2019)


Article

Four Reasons Taxpayers Should Never Subsidize Stadiums - Bloomberg

Elected officials have been played by team owners and sports leagues. (2019)


Article

Why Public Transportation Works Better Outside the U.S. - CityLab

The widespread failure of American mass transit is usually blamed on cheap gas and suburban sprawl. But the full story of why other countries succe... (2018)


Article

The Global Mass Transit Revolution - CityLab

A new report confirms that the U.S. lags behind the rest of the world in mass transit. (2018)


Article

Road makers turn to recycled plastic for tougher surfaces - The Economist

OF ALL the plastic produced since the 1950s, less than 10% has been recycled. The vast majority ends up being dumped, most of it in landfill. Some ... (2018)


Article

Transit Alliance Miami → Where's My Bus? → Service Cuts

With two out of three trips on transit served by buses in Miami, the continued dismantling of the bus system is alarming and misguided. (2018)


Article

Can this new privately funded train reshape transit in Florida? - Fast Company

Most transit in America is run by the government. In car-swamped south Florida, Brightline is trying a different model, with its high-speed trains ... (2018)


Article

The Stark (and Hopeful) Facts About Bus Ridership - CityLab

It’s not a death spiral—at least, not yet. Examples abound of how city leaders can turn the numbers around... (2018)


Article

If You Want to Save Your City, Fall in Love With the Bus | CityLab

Talk of the transportation future is focused on the next shiny thing. But one old technology is central to real transformation... (2018)


Article

The Hidden Masterpieces Of The N.Y.C. Subway

Philip Ashforth Coppola has spent 40 years illustrating subway stations–and revealing their forgotten histories. (2018)


Article

Why Did New York City Stop Building Subways? - CityLab

Nearly 80 years ago, a construction standstill derailed the subway’s progress, leading to its present crisis. This is the story, decade by decade... (2018)


Article

U.S. Agencies Agree to Slash Approval Times for Infrastructure Projects - Bloomberg

More than a dozen federal agencies agreed to slash the time needed for environmental reviews and permitting on major infrastructure projects, a cor... (2018)


Article

‘The Trains Are Slower Because They Slowed the Trains Down’ | Village Voice

Internal MTA documents show everything we thought we knew about subway delays was wrong (2018)


Article

Traffic’s Mind-Boggling Economic Toll | CityLab

New Study of Global Traffic Reveals That Traffic Is Bad The largest study of its kind ever conducted reveals just how how costly the scourge of ... (2018)


Article

The U.S. Gets Less Subway for Its Money Than Its Peers - CityLab

It’s not just the Second Avenue Subway: Nearly all urban rail projects in the U.S. cost much more than their European counterparts. (2018)


Article

A Former Chicago Project Will Become A Museum Dedicated To Public Housing

The space will tell the stories of three families who once lived in the building, and host events to engage visitors in much-needed discussions aro... (2018)


Article

With Fungi in the Mix, Concrete Can Fill Its Own Cracks | Innovation | Smithsonian

Adding fungus might be one way to endow concrete with the ability to repair any damage, without the need for human intervention "Infrastructure ... (2018)


Article

The Most Awful Transit Center in America Could Get Unimaginably Worse - Bloomberg

Think Penn Station is bad? Let’s go into the crumbling, disaster-prone tunnels that lie beneath. (2018)


Article

How Politics and Bad Decisions Starved New York’s Subways - The New York Times

Disruptions and delays have roiled the system this year. But the crisis was long in the making, fueled by a litany of errors, a Times investigation... (2018)


Video

Mexico’s $7.5B Gamble to Disrupt the Panama Canal | WSJ Breaking Ground

Mexico’s $7.5 billion interoceanic corridor aims to ease a major chokehold in a global shipping mess and rival the Panama Canal. The stretch of lan... (2024)


Video

Massive project works to restore Florida's Everglades

What's been called the largest restoration project in human history is underway in Florida's Everglades. Billions of dollars are being spent to res... (2024)


Video

The Insane Scale of Europe’s New Mega-Tunnel

Denmark is building a record-breaking tunnel to Germany. (2023)


Video

The $11B Tunnel That Could Save One of Europe’s Busiest Mountain Corridors | WSJ Breaking Ground

Nestled under the Alps and the Italian-Austrian border, the Brenner Base Tunnel is poised to be the longest underground railway connection in the w... (2023)


Video

Panama Canal: Inside the World’s Largest Cargo Shipping Bottleneck Today | WSJ

The Panama Canal is running out of water, threatening to slow down the global supply chains and economies that depend on it. 40% of all U.S. contai... (2023)


Video

The $1.5 Billion Plan to Clean Paris' River

The $1.5 Billion Plan to Clean Paris' River (2023)


Video

Penn Station: The $7BN Plan to Save New York's Most Hated Train Station

Manhattan's Penn Station is finally getting an update. Skip the waitlist and invest in blue-chip art for the very first time by signing up for Mast... (2023)


Video

The Simple Genius of NYC’s Water Supply System

The Simple Genius of New York City’s Water Supply System (2022)


Video

The Real Reason U.S.Highways Are Always Under Construction - Cheddar Explains

Wherever you drive, highway construction seems unavoidable, but U.S. roads have needed so much repair and maintenance, you start to wonder if we’re... (2022)


Video

Europe’s Experiment: Treating Trains Like Planes

Sign up for the CuriosityStream/Nebula bundle for just $14.79 a *year* to watch Extremities right when it comes out on August 4th: http://Curiosity... (2022)


Video

New Rule: America's Pipe Dream | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

Subscribe to the Real Time YouTube: http://itsh.bo/10r5A1BBefore we spread democracy around the world, America has to figure out how to spread wate... (2021)


Video

Michigan Dam(s) Fail! Tittabawassee River.

Overview of the Boyce Hydro System and What we know so far. LINKS: Drone Footage (2020)


Video

How Did New York's Trains Get so Bad? | NYT

New York City subways have the worst on-time performance of any major rapid transit system in the world. This is the story of how the city ended up... (2019)


Video

Everything You Need to Know About 5G -- IEEE Spectrum

IEEE Spectrum Published on Feb 6, 2017 Millimeter waves, massive MIMO, full duplex, beamforming, and small cells are just a few of the technologi... (2018)


Video

The Sustainable Development Goals – Action Towards 2030 | CAFOD and SDGs

CAFOD Published on Aug 16, 2016 The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as part of Agenda 2030 Su... (2018)


Video

The Sustainable Development Goals – Action Towards 2030 | CAFOD and SDGs

CAFOD Published on Aug 16, 2016 The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as part of Agenda 2030 Su... (2018)


Video

How streets, roads, and avenues are different - Vox

Vox Published on Nov 14, 2016 There's a method to the madness of classifying roads. Follow Phil Edwards and Vox Almanac on Facebook for more..... (2018)


Video

How highways wrecked American cities

The Interstate Highway System was one of America's most revolutionary infrastructure projects. It also destroyed urban neighborhoods across the nat... (2018)


Video

Superblocks: How Barcelona is taking city streets back from cars

Modern cities are designed for cars. But the city of Barcelona is testing out an urban design trick that can give cities back to pedestrians. Read ... (2018)


Video

7 principles for building better cities | Peter Calthorpe | TED

More than half of the world's population already lives in cities, and another 2.5 billion people are projected to move to urban areas by 2050. The ... (2018)


Podcast

Nuclear power and America's clean energy future | On Point

President Joe Biden signed a $1 trillion infrastructure bill this week. Tucked into the plan includes the Biden administration's belief in the impo... (2021)


Podcast

a16z Podcast: All about Bike Sharing – Andreessen Horowitz

This episode of the a16z Podcast — including city of Dallas councilmember Lee Kleinman, chairman of their Mobility Solutions, Infrastructure, and S... (2018)


Podcast

Built for Speed - 99% Invisible

I want you to conjure an image in your mind of the white stripes that divide the lanes of traffic going the same direction on a major highway. How ... (2017)


Book

The High Cost of Free Parking - (book) by Donald C. Shoup

American drivers park for free on nearly ninety-nine percent of their car trips, and cities require developers to provide ample off-street parking ... (2018)


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