Infrastructure Sustainability and Design
by Spiro N. Pollalis, Andreas Georgoulias, Stephen J. Ramos, Daniel Schodek
Part 4
Design and Planning for Infrastructure Sustainability
AS IS ALWAYS THE CASE, one must toil in the now while keeping an eye on the future. The means and methods for creating sustainable infrastructure and for developing an assessment tool exist today but require implementation. Nevertheless, new challenges and opportunities await us. Individual sustainable infrastructure projects will need to become integrated into entire sustainable cities. Existing cities will need to be retrofitted to become ecological centers. The very goals and values associated with the current culture of consumption must be checked and re-evaluated. This section presents some of the new and fascinating challenges, both practical and theoretical, that await us. As ...
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