If we don't "smarten" up our urban infrastructure, daily life could slowly ground to a halt.
She is now back in Yemen, where medical supplies and food are running low as daily airstrikes damage infrastructure.
We get a chance to design the building blocks of our daily routines, the infrastructure that will support and accompany us for the years to come - from the trains and trams we ride, the offices we work in, to the energy that powers our homes.
Mass disasters cause widespread and severe damage, injury and loss of life or property, resulting in severe disruption of daily activities and infrastructure.
The turnabout seemed to irritate Mr. Christie, who has repeatedly criticized the Port Authority for spending too much at the trade center and too little on the infrastructure used daily by commuters from New Jersey.
We're not really aware of it in our daily lives, but the infrastructure that's serving our needs, particularly here in the western world, has got completely out of control – often resulting in inexcusable levels of water and air pollution.
Media as a case study, how media is using the notifications as an alert infrastructure: Jon Steinberg (Daily Mail), Andrew Mclaughlin (Digg), Alex Danco (Share the bus).
A multitude of ELAS calculations shows that the impact of spatial planning decisions, such as developing mixed-use structures with sufficient daily supply and social infrastructure, as well as pursuing settlement density has an important effect on the energy demand and the environmental pressures related to the energy supply of residential areas.
The importance of understanding system resilience and identifying ways to enhance it, especially for interdependent infrastructures our daily life depends on, has been recognized not only by academics, but also by the corporate and public sectors.
The study reported in this paper examined the willingness of secondary school students to use e-bikes (age group 15 21 years) and their perceived cycling barriers, including the impact of non-existing cycling infrastructures in daily trips from home to/from school.
