Business, government, and infrastructure in Brazil
With booming cities and a vastly expanded middle class, Brazil faces incredible new opportunities as well as dramatic challenges. Discussions of both quickly turn to the built environment: to provide a...
View ArticlePreservation and revitalization in Latin America
Latin American cities feature a rich mix of buildings, streets, and monuments dating from the pre-Columbian era through the present. Urban cores fell out of fashion as cities sprawled outward in the...
View ArticleOn resilient infrastructure
Over the past few years, the impacts of climate change have become evident. Storms are more frequent and powerful, resulting in large monetary losses along with tragic human costs. Hurricane Sandy,...
View ArticleCities, water, and climate change
Climate change and sea level rise have begun to reshape our shorelines. In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, the US federal government created a yearlong competition exploring ways to strengthen coastal...
View ArticleRoad diets and car clouds: Shaping the driverless city
Like the space race of the 1960s, the competitive sprint to develop a driverless car is well underway. As start-ups, major companies, and the automotive industry hurry toward production, public...
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