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Cities are shaped by transportation infrastructure. Older cities were anchored by waterways. Nineteenth century cities … value of investing in transportation infrastructure. Future transportation innovations, including autonomous vehicles and …
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infrastructure that also makes them archives and works of art. The Cultural Infrastructure of Cities critically re-examines the … relationship between the urban and its cultures. It expands our understanding of the concept of urban cultural infrastructure and … definitions of cultural infrastructure and its 'hard' and 'soft' dimensions before critically considering the vulnerabilities …
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We develop a model in which public capital is both an engine of growth and a determinant of the distributions of wealth, income, and welfare. Government investment increases wealth inequality over time, regardless of its financing. The time path of income inequality is, however, highly sensitive...
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This paper cites statistics published by the World Economic Forum and concludes that there is no infrastructure crisis … infrastructure, which places it firmly in the top 8 percent in terms of infrastructure development. Thus, it is not reasonable to … argue or conclude that there is an infrastructure crisis …
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The author provides a preliminary benchmarking of infrastructure performance in Lesotho in four major sectors … infrastructure performance from over 200 countries. The results of the benchmarking are revealing of several major, comparative … deficiencies in infrastructure performance in Lesotho: (1) extremely low access to electricity and its affordability; (2) poor …
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Urban infrastructure investment is needed for both, mitigation of climate risks and improved urban resiliency … necessary and sufficient factors to economically favor climate-change resilient infrastructure in private investment decisions … of climate-resilient infrastructure. The Paris Agreement and other supra-local policies and actors including city …
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Contents: 1. Who owns, runs and pays for city infrastructure? -- 2. Financialising city infrastructure and governance … -- 3. Towards city statecraft -- 4. City infrastructure provision and geographical inequalities in the UK's centralised …, owning, and acquiring city infrastructure assets -- 7. Fixing urban infrastructure in the London global city …
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