Cities and Infrastructure: Synthesis and Perspectives [PDF]

R Herman, JH Ausubel. pp. 1-21 in Cities and their vital systems: Infrastructure, Past, Present, and Future, National Academy, Washington, DC 1988

This article, as well as the full publication in which it originally appears, is also available on the National Academies Press website, located at https://www.nap.edu/books/0309037867/html/….

Economist article, “Working miracles”

…magazine has an article in the current survey on the environment that draws heavily from our research and our friends at IIASA: “Working miracles: Can technology save the planet?” https://www.economist.com/special-report/2002/07/06/working-miracles…

TreeParser paper published

…Their work appears today in Nature Publishing Group’s open access journal Scientific Reports https://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130911/srep02635/full/srep02635.html The resulting Klee diagrams are both beautiful and scientifically informative. In the figure below, bird and…

Cosmos Prize photos

…Prize web page now has excellent photos and other material about the award of the 2011 prize to the Scientific Steering Committee of the Census of Marine Life. See: https://www.expo-cosmos.or.jp/album_e.html…

Directions

…Central (Metro-North): a taxi costs ~ $18 to 66th Street & York Avenue. From Penn Station (Amtrak, NJ Transit, LIRR): a taxi costs ~ $30 to 66th Street & York…

Making Nature Useless

…Nature Useless: Relative Dematerialization & Absolute Peaks. We also post Jesse’s brief (3-page) prepared remarks, On Useless Nature, subsequently published in RealClearScience (18 Sept 2015). Some coverage at https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-humans-and-nature-co-exist/ https://reason.com/archives/2014/11/10/making-nature-useless…