Physical infrastructure
September 24, 2022 — October 30, 2024
Physical infrastructure, miscellaneous notes upon.
1 Incoming
- Spectech Newsletter | Ben Reinhardt
- Would a journal of infrastructure complexity be any good?
- Brian Potter, Construction and the Toyota Production System
- Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
- How high are infrastructure costs? Analysing interstate construction spending
- Australia’s infrastructure cost conundrum
- Trump Infrastructure Plan: Cost Will be an Issue. Here’s Why.
- Why do roads, rail, and infrastructure cost so much to build in the US?
- SMART Infrastructure Facility - University of Wollongong
- Gang nail plates: The Invention that Accidentally Made McMansions (video)
- Self-Healing Concrete: What Ancient Roman Concrete Can Teach Us
- Sustainable building: The hottest new material is, uh, wood
2 References
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Brooks, and Liscow. 2019. “Infrastructure Costs.” SSRN Electronic Journal.
Chachra. 2023. How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World.
Coppage. 2018. “Our Infrastructure Inefficiency.” National Review (blog).
Flyvbjerg, and Gardner. 2023. How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between.
Hayes. 2005. A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape.
Hidalgo, César A., and Hausmann. 2009. “The Building Blocks of Economic Complexity.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Hidalgo, C. A., Klinger, Barabási, et al. 2007. “The Product Space Conditions the Development of Nations.” Science.
Kitchin, Lauriault, and McArdle. 2015. “Knowing and Governing Cities Through Urban Indicators, City Benchmarking and Real-Time Dashboards.” Regional Studies, Regional Science.
Leishman, Bond-Smith, Liang, et al. 2021. “Relationships Between Metropolitan, Satellite and Regional City Size, Spatial Context and Economic Productivity.” AHURI Final Report.
Louf, and Barthelemy. 2014. “A Typology of Street Patterns.” Journal of The Royal Society Interface.
McLaren, and Agyeman. 2015. Sharing Cities: A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities. Urban and Industrial Environments.
Resnick. 1997. Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams : Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds.
Smil. 2000. “Energy in the Twentieth Century: Resources, Conversions, Costs, Uses, and Consequences.” Annual Review of Energy and the Environment.
Swei. 2018. “Long-Run Construction Cost Trends: Baumol’s Cost Disease and a Disaggregate Look at Building Material Price Dynamics.” Journal of Construction Engineering and Management.