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I Breached Levees, Fallen Bridges: Is American Infrastructure in Crisis? |
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1 The Real Infrastructure Crisis. Burt Solomon. National Journal |
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2 Reverse Gears: A New Reality for Public Works? John McCarron. Planning |
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3 Look Out Below! America's Infrastructure Is Crumbling. Eric Kelderman. Stateline.org. |
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4 American Collapse. Sarah Williams Goldhagen. The New Republic |
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5 Infrastructure Investment and U.S. Competitiveness. Jonathan Masters. Council on Foreign Relations |
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6 Rebuilding America Special Report: How to Fix American Infrastructure. Erik Sofge. Popular Mechanics |
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7 A New Bank to Save Our Infrastructure. Felix G. Rohatyn and Everett Ehrlich. The New York Review of Books |
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II Highways, Byways, and Railways: Transportation Infrastructure |
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1 Transportation Infrastructure: Excerpted from America on the Move. National Museum of American History, The Smithsonian Institute |
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2 Transportation Infrastructure: Moving America. Robert McMahon. Council on Foreign Relations |
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3 Failing U.S. Transportation System Will Imperil Prosperity, Report Finds. Ashley Halsey III. The Washington Post |
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4 Cars, Highways, and the Poor. Yonah Freemark. Dissent |
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5 The U.S. Must Invest in Infrastructure. Mark Laluan. The Pioneer Online |
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6 Clogged Arteries. Bruce Katz and Robert Puentes. Atlantic Monthly |
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7 King of the Road. Alex Marshall. Governing |
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8 Shifting Gears: Breaking Our Addiction to Cars. David Carroll Cochran. Commonweal |
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III The Train Debate: Can Rail Revolutionize American Transport? |
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1 Bullet Trains for America? Mark Reutter. The Wilson Quarterly |
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2 All Aboard? Bullet Trains May Be Sidetracked, But Not Commuter Rail. Peter A. Harkness. Governing |
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3 Leaping into Light Rail: Cities in the South and West Are Writing a New
Chapter in the. History of Transit. Zach Patton. Governing |
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4 Accelerating Amtrak: Will Superfast Train Service in the Northeast Ever Happen? Alex Marshall. Governing |
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5 Money Train. Philip Klein. The American Spectator |
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IV The Grid: Power and Communications Networks |
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1 The 21st Century Grid: Can We Fix the Infrastructure that Powers Our Lives? Joel Achenbach. National Geographic |
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2 Problems Facing Our Energy Infrastructure. Ben Prawdzik. Yale Economic Review |
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3 Are You Afraid of the Dark? Jared Wade. Risk Management |
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4 Electric Intelligence: Establishing a Smart Grid Requires Regulatory Reform, Not Subsidies. Lynne Kiesling. Reason |
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5 Wiring the Revolution. Thomas K. Grose. ASEE Prism |
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V From Taps to Toilets: Waterworks |
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1 At the Breaking Point. Robert Barkin. American City & County |
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2 Blue Technology Can Quench America's Thirst. Laura Shenkar. USA Today |
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3 Not Just a `Water Problem'. Jeff Gunderson. Water Environment & Technology |
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170 | (4) |
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4 Water at the Crossroads. Jennifer Grzeskowiak. American City & County |
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5 Add Water Systems to U.S. Infrastructure Challenges, Says Infrastructure 2010: An Investment Imperative. Urban Land Institute (ULI) |
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Additional Periodical Articles with Abstracts |
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