The intervention has been tested in water infrastructure planning for one of the world's largest urban renewal areas in Melbourne, Australia.
"Why hasn't the end come?" said Eric Kober, director of housing, economic and infrastructure planning for the city's Department of City Planning.
Eric Kober, director of housing, economic and infrastructure planning for the New York City Department of City Planning, cautioned against reading too much into the housing-cost data.
He has proposed spending more than $30 billion on water and flood-control projects under his $222 billion infrastructure plan for the next two decades.
"I'm still open to it," said Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D). Tuesday after meeting with White House officials about infrastructure plans for this year.
An infrastructure plan for London launched in July by Boris Johnson, the city's ambitious mayor, mentions data 25 times and devotes a section to how they can become a "key element of planning and operating cities".
James Tierney, the department's assistant commissioner for water resources, said the state had already approved a similar green infrastructure plan for the City of Syracuse and for Onondaga County.
"One of the main issues now is of credibility and the potential impact on future fund-raising, which could have knock-on effects on building and infrastructure plans for Dubai and the United Arab Emirates," he said.
More important, it would force the cities to think long and hard about creating an infrastructure plan for the long term — one that works not just for the Olympics but also for residents, who will have to live with what is left behind.
Eric Kober, director of housing, economic and infrastructure planning for the New York City Department of Planning, described as "extremely counterintuitive" the census's finding that the percentage of people in the civilian labor force and the percentage of people employed actually declined nationally and especially in New York City.
