Sentence examples for material infrastructure from inspiring English sources

Since the 1970s, Keiller has been architect, photographer, installation artist and, increasingly, an essayist of stylish rigour on urban planning, architectural decay and the vast culturally occluded material infrastructure that subtends daily life in Britain.

Daily newspapers, glossy weekly and monthly magazines, learned journals, and bound books, for more than two centuries the flagships of civilised discourse and universal knowledge – that whole material infrastructure of literacy has, all of a sudden, seemed in danger of vaporising, or if not vanishing entirely then turning into something less tangible and more ephemeral.

Moreover, this trust is supported by a material infrastructure - high-cost research equipment.

However, Lambeck is worried about a focus on "material infrastructure," i.e., facilities and equipment rather than personnel.

This makes them vulnerable - they have more material infrastructure and capabilities to target than, say, al-Qaeda - but also more resilient.

To maximise the benefit of locally knowledgeable action, the policy framework must be responsive to the specificity of locally appropriate configurations of actors and material infrastructure.

These projects are not only hungry for funding for materials, infrastructure and expenses, but also information about community organizing, sustainable gardening practices and issues like securing property insurance and organizing a non-profit.

We live in a nation where we don't properly invest in teachers, school materials, infrastructure and actual teaching skills-yet will pour money into the failing standardized testing industry.

INT 6 PPT—1 While a general lack of materials, infrastructure and laboratory facilities were thought to reduce the number and scope of trials, most participants felt that human resources were the critical factor.

This not only limits the development of a local market, but exposes the industry to fluctuating exchange rates which affects the prices of the raw material for infrastructure.

Although composting-toilet technology is high-maintenance and disrupts the easy convenience of the "flush-and-forget" systems, composting toilets can save energy, material, and infrastructure costs associated with traditional sewage systems.