Tag: infrastructure

  • Toronto Keeps It Cool

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    Brendan Barry
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    Last month the Washington Post published a nice article that detailed the deep water cooling system that the city of Toronto, Canada uses to keep itself cool. For the unfamiliar, deep water cooling at its simplest means sucking up very cold water from the bottom of a lake or ocean or wherever you can get…

  • Protecting New Jersey’s Back Bay Communities

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    We’re back and there’s a lot to touch on this week. But first, as a prelude to some of the Hurricane Ida coverage, I wanted to briefly point our attention to an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer from about two or three weeks before Ida struck. The article focused on the US Army Corps of…

  • Building Back Better Boston Transit

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    The alliteration failed at that last word, but it gets the point across. No mater how you may want to define infrastructure, the term always includes transit. In the Boston Globe, an opinion piece proposed how the city and region of Boston could improve upon the city’s mass transit options. And they made a map.…

  • What Is Infrastructure?

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    This morning I read a piece in Politico Playbook that broke down President Biden’s $2.25 trillion proposal for infrastructure spending. A thing generally regarded as the United States sorely needs. $2.25 trillion is a lot of money and it’s a fair question to ask whether all that money is really money for infrastructure. Because, it…

  • Discontinuous Lead Bars

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    Brendan Barry
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    Last week the Guardian published an article about drinking water pollution across the United States. Overall, it was a nicely done piece and the graphics within segmented the longer text into discrete sections. Each unit looks similar: The left focuses on a definition and provides contextual information. It includes small illustrations of the mechanisms by…

  • Building New Railways in America

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    I wasn’t expecting this piece to fall into the queue for today, but you all know me as a sucker for trains. So today we have this nice set of small multiples from the Guardian. It looks at…I guess we could call it train deserts. They’re like food deserts, except we’re talking about trains. What…

  • Get to Dam Work

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    Sorry, not sorry. But also, sorry. This piece was supposed to go up Wednesday after President Trump’s speech where he announced he’d like to spend $1 trillion on infrastructure. But it didn’t post, so you will get two today. This article from the New York Times dates from about a week or so ago at…

  • Water on Demand

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    Thanks, Brazilian tree forest company, for inspiring cities to provide us with water on demand. Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.