in·fra·struc·ture
(ĭn𠌯rə-strŭk𠌬hər)
n.1. A fundamental base or foundation especially for a corporation or system.2. The fundamental facilities, services, and installations required for the functioning of the community or society, for example transportation and communications systems, water and utility lines, and public institutions including schools, publish offices, and prisons.
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Urban Infrastructure Research NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Urban Informatics research concentrates on the purchase, integration, and analysis of diverse, large-scale data to know and improve urban systems and excellence of existence in metropolitan areas. Researchers seek a much better knowledge of complex urban systems and processes, utilizing existing and emerging data streams and novel urban sensors to look at, model, and evaluate city form and performance. Research in urban informatics is directly associated with practice by identifying and deploying new data-driven methods to probably the most pressing challenges facing metropolitan areas as well as their residents. The aim of the work would be to make metropolitan areas all over the world more sustainable, livable, equitable, and resilient.
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The Urban Infrastructure
Nicholas Papayanis and Rosemary Wakeman
The urban infrastructure is analogous to the internal frame of a building: as the frame is the underlying structural support for the building, the urban infrastructure is the underlying structural foundation of a city. Cities from the earliest times have had infrastructural amenities—roadways and sewers, for example—and all infrastructural development involves the provision of public services and the use of public spaces that are deemed essential for the ability of people to live in the city. Over time an increasingly accepted notion was that circulation of air, sunlight, commerce, vehicles, water, waste matter, people, and even knowledge was as essential to the healthy operation of the city as, to employ another analogy, blood circulating through the human body. What marks the development of the modern infrastructure since the nineteenth century is its close association with technological development, industrialization, and the dramatic growth of city populations. While definitions of the urban infrastructure may include any and all public services, the essential elements of the urban infrastructure during the nineteenth century, the formative period of the modern city, consist of new streets and boulevards, mass transit, new sewage systems, and the provision of gas, water, and electricity. The net effect of these infrastructural developments is the creation of the modern city as a circulatory system designed to move people and material products rapidly and efficiently, both above- and belowground.
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