At least five interesting things for your weekend (#45)
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At least five interesting things for your weekend (#45)
What can the world’s most walkable cities teach other places?
economist.com
The noble but undervalued craft of maintenance could help preserve modernity’s finest achievements, from public transit systems to power grids, and serve as a useful framework for addressing climate change
Alex Vuocolo • The Disappearing Art of Maintenance
A World Class Transportation System: Transportation Finance for a New Economy
amazon.com
What would it mean to break out of the Infrastructure Cult and make capital investments that had a real return on investment? First and foremost, it would require us to spend public money on infrastructure projects that covered their own costs, not only today but indefinitely into the future.
Charles L. Marohn • Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity
“Think of efficiency as a high-performance engine. Under perfect conditions, it delivers maximum power and minimum waste. However, that very efficiency makes it less robust. Highly efficient systems have no slack, no redundancy, and therefore no resilience and no spare capacity.” — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 26 March 2020