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Electricity is a quirky commodity: more often than not, it cannot be stored, easily transported, or imported from overseas. Before lighting up our homes, it changes hands through specialized electricity markets that rely on engineering expertise to trade competitively while resp…
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Applications of Advanced Technology in Transportation, held in Chicago, Illinois, August 13-15, 2006. Sponsored by Advanced Technology Committee and Infrastructure Systems Committee of the Transportation and Development Instit…
Navigating Austerity addresses a key policy question of our era: what happens to society and the environment when austerity dominates political and economic life? To get to the heart of this issue, Laura Bear tells the stories of boatmen, shipyard workers, hydrographers, port bu…
This work focuses on the crucial role of intermediaries (between producers, users and regulators) in urban change. The book brings together the world's leading researchers in this field.
How we lost control of the internet-and how to win it back. The internet has become a battleground. Although it was unlikely to live up to the hype and hopes of the 1990s, only the most skeptical cynics could have predicted the World Wide Web as we know it today: commercial, iso…
When cars emerged in the last century, people began connecting their cities through roadways. In the course of time, a narrow grid of roads originated. But what permits great mobility is, in the urban context, a barrier to urban relations and movement flows beyond the use of car…
Research report on the future of the automobile and the motor vehicle industry in OECD countries - describes the historical framework; examines energy costs, air pollution and infrastructure constraints, and trends in Innovation and in the supply and demand of automobiles; discu…
Mumbai is a city of cities, ranging from hyper-dense neighborhoods that lack access to the most basic services to affluent gated communities with luxury amenities. Today, as Mumbai looks to overhaul its crumbling infrastructure, it prioritizes the needs of the city’s elite. For …
Disrupted cities: when infrastructure fails
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"Bringing together leading researchers from geography, political science, sociology, public policy and technology studies, Disrupted Cities exposes the politics of well-known disruptions such as devastation of New Orleans in 2005, the global SARS outbreak in 2002-3, and the grea…
