In collaboration with the Regional Plan Association the CAUI working group has been developing a research program for twenty-first century infrastructure since our 2005 conference on the American City. The “hard” infrastructure systems of the previous age—highways, dams, telephone, and rail lines-facilitated mobility and altered the American landscape in the …
Urban Theme
Twenty-First Century Infrastructure
Current
Project
On the Water
Masterplan
Finite-element model of the New York / New Jersey Upper Bay incorporating Latrobe masterplan islands, detached piers, and reefs.
Finite-element model of the New York / New Jersey Upper Bay incorporating Latrobe masterplan islands, detached piers, and reefs.
Project
Urban Theme
Slow Infrastructure
2006-2008
The Federal-Aid Highway Act was enacted exactly fifty years ago, when Dwight Eisenhower signed it into law in 1956 from his hospital bed. Rumor has it that Eisenhower drew a three by three grid onto a piece of paper, handed it over to his staff, and told them to base …
