John Hennessy III,
P.E.
In New York City, roughly 80 percent of residential buildings are heated by steam. There’s a good chance you live in one and, if so, you’ve become accustomed to uneven heating, open windows in the dead of winter, and high heating bills. Indeed, heating is the biggest utility expense for most residential buildings in New York State. But there’s good news: Heating also offers the biggest opportunities for savings.
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What this report shows is that our streets aren’t getting safer. Even more so, while traffic deaths impact every community in the United States, states and metropolitan areas across the southern continental United States, older adults, people of color, and people walking in low-income communities bear a higher share of this harm.
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Oregon DOT creates sidewalks, lights, pedestrian crossings and more with a new project through downtown La Pine.
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With the continuous evolution of information and communications technology, cities are becoming smarter, with some pulling ahead as smarter than others due to strategic investments. According to a recent report by International Data Corp. (IDC), smart city technology spending is expected to hit $81 billion in 2018 and grow to $158 billion by 2022. IDC forecasts the focus of smart initiatives and spending will be intelligent traffic and transit as well as fixed visual surveillance, followed by smart outdoor lighting and environmental monitoring.
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Check out the progress building the Roosevelt light rail station. It’s part of the Northgate Link extension opening in 2021. See more at: https://www.soundtransit.org/blog/platform/fresh-pics-going-underground-roosevelt-station
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Video from Oklahoma DOT outlines a number of road diet strategies already in place around the Sooner State, from mid-block pedestrian crossings to lane reductions. The goal of road diets is to multi-modal use, inducing speed calming, reducing the speed differential and preventing collisions.
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Emerging from the city’s own zoning restrictions, near unrivalled appeal, insatiable developers and engineering ingenuity – this is the story behind Manhattan’s Billionaire’s Row.
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The 2016 election revealed a dramatic gap between two Americas—one based in large, diverse, thriving metropolitan regions; the other found in more homogeneous small towns and rural areas struggling under the weight of economic stagnation and social decline. This gap between two American geographies came as a shock to many observers.
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How do cities grow? On the surface, this question has a pretty simple answer. Cities grow out. They start out small, and as more people move in, they get bigger. Sure, cities grow up, too, but here in the United States cities really grow out. But there’s more to it than that. Cities grow out faster now than they did 150 years ago. And they don’t always grow evenly out from the center. Why?
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In what is already a major trend, cities are partnering with private-sector businesses, corporations, educational organizations, civic groups, private individuals and non-government organizations. The partnerships then work together in planning, designing and implementing innovative smart cities projects that will promote sustainability and improve the quality of life for citizens.
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