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Infrastructure includes the basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise, [1] or the services and facilities necessary for an economy to function. This entry aggregates articles on and lists of modern infrastructure failures by category (type of infrastructure).
Drivers, processes, and impacts of sinking cities [1]. Sinking cities are urban environments that are in danger of disappearing due to their rapidly changing landscapes.The largest contributors to these cities becoming unlivable are the combined effects of climate change (manifested through sea level rise, intensifying storms, and storm surge), land subsidence, and accelerated urbanization. [2]
These problems are all the more important because we are in the midst of a historic investment in America’s infrastructure, with over $1.6 trillion in investments in the Bipartisan ...
[279] [280] The majority of the world's computers use Microsoft Windows, creating a monoculture that reduces resiliency. [140] [280] Ciaran Martin, a cybersecurity expert, said, "This is a very, very uncomfortable illustration of the fragility of the world's core internet infrastructure". [140]
These slum infrastructure upgrades were combined with city infrastructure upgrade such as addition of metro, paved roads and highways to empower all city residents including the poor with reliable access throughout city. [255] Most slum upgrading projects, however, have produced mixed results.
America has an infrastructure problem. Nearly half of U.S. public roads are in poor or mediocre condition. Almost 250,000 bridges across the country will need to be replaced in the next two decades.
Car dependency is a phenomenon in urban planning wherein existing and planned infrastructure prioritizes the use of automobiles over other modes of transportation, such as public transport, bicycles, and walking. Car dependency has been attributed with leading to a more polluting transport system compared to systems where all transportation ...
Urban decay is often the result of inter-related socio-economic issues, including urban planning decisions, economic deprivation of the local populace, the construction of freeways and railroad lines that bypass or run through the area, [2] depopulation by suburbanization of peripheral lands, real estate neighborhood redlining, [3] and ...