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- Cycling Infrastructure
With warmer weather just around the corner those of us who didn’t brave cycling through the winter months are preparing our two-wheeled transit for another season. We are not alone. In cities across North America bicycle ridership is on the rise. Montreal and New York City have both increased their ridership by 35 and 28% [...]
- Corn Belt 2.0: Syncing the Starchscape
[Mountain of Corn.]
Editors Note: File under Feedback: Architecture’s New Territories, an InfraNet Lab seminar at Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design / University of Toronto. Guest post and images are by Matthew Spremulli. Matthew will be continuing this work in his MArch thesis, which will be blogged at the ever-expanding reField.
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Corn has unquestionably become [...]
- Landscape Infrastructures DVD
[Landscape Infrastructures DVD now available.]
This past October 25, 2008, The Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design hosted a symposium organized and curated by Prof. Pierre Bélanger, recently swiped up by appointed by Harvard GSD, titled Landscape Infrastructures. Bélanger rightly marks our time as witness to a unique convergence of infrastructure and landscape. The urgency [...]
- Student Works: An Infrastructural Lifeline for Palestine and Israel
[Torn Country, Thesis Cover Page, Christoph Hesse]
For Palestine and Israel, and undoubtedly for the rest of the world, the year 1999 was one of hope. A huge step towards a peaceful future in the Middle East was made in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, when the Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Barak and PLO Chairman Yasser [...]
- High Speed Rail in America
[A Siemens built Velaro high-speed train for service in Spain – anticipated to be the model for California’s fleet.]
By announcing $13 billion stimulus package aimed at the development of the groundwork for a high-speed rail (HSR) network, President Obama has catapulted intercity transportation to the front of infrastructural spending.
After peaking during the Second World War, [...]
- Space Elevato(we)rs
[space elevator, concept image]
Next week, the Space Frontier Foundation will kick off their NewSpace 2009 Conference at the NASA Ames Research Center. The opening day of the conference, entitled ‘Space Elevator Day’ will explore new technologies and possibilities associated with Space Elevators. The conference is strategically placed between an intriguing paper published earlier this month, [...]
- Islands at the Top of the World – Airships Revisited
[Luxury cruises by Airship Ventures Zeppelin NT over San Francisco]
As energy costs rise and resources continue to deplete, seemingly defunct technologies tend to resurface. Airships are one such innovation, garnering more attention in recent years after decades of dormancy. Airships are ‘lighter than air’ structures that remain aloft with a lifting gas, such as [...]
- Infrastructure for everyone! – not so fast.
[Money for Public Projects] The New York Times
With the global economy in recession and unemployment levels rising, elected leaders throughout the world are turning to infrastructure projects as a way to put thousands of people back to work.
With this massive forthcoming investment we just had to investigate what’s likely to come down the infrastructure pipeline. [...]
- Making a Better Place
[Electric Parking Lot in Israel: www.betterplace.com]
With the cost of a barrel of oil dipping below $40 a few weeks ago (recall this summer’s price of $140), imagining a post-oil future may not be on everyone's mind . This is not the case for venture-backed Better Place and its partners. Since 2007, Better Place, led by [...]
- Peak to Peak, or Parabolic Trajectories
[Trail map of Blackcomb (left) and Whistler (right).]
It is becoming commonplace to hear the superlatives coming out of the Middle East and China in terms of infrastructure, but not this time. In preparation for the 2010 Winter Olympics, the two peaks at opposing ends to Fitzsimmions Valley, Whistler and Blackcomb will be linked. In the [...]
