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Community By Design: Exploring Social Infrastructure in Waterloo Region is a 5-episode podcast series that takes you on a tour of some of the most critical social infrastructure in Waterloo Region, where creative connectors are using everyday spaces—libraries, schools, public squares—to build belonging and social connection. Through conversations with a variety of community builders, this show reveals how intentional design and grassroots ingenuity are weaving a stronger social fabric across our communities. Produced by Midtown Radio and supported by the Waterloo Region Community ...

Un podcast sur les origines des technologies et infrastructures omniprésentes dans notre quotidien, mais que l'on finit par oublier.

What role can infrastructure play in addressing some of society’s most pressing challenges? We’re living through a moment of immense complexity. Rising living costs are putting pressure on families everywhere. Housing shortages have left many struggling to find a place to call home. Public services are stretched thin. And the impacts of climate change grow more evident each day. Through insightful conversations, we’ll explore how the public and private sectors can tackle these challenges and help to transform our communities. Established in 2004, Plenary is a leading independent ...

Discover how Australia is laying a foundation for the future by building better infrastructure. As it enters a new decade as one of the world’s fastest growing western countries, Australia finds itself at a crossroads: To maintain our prosperity, liveability and growth we need new roads, railways and renewable energy sources. Smarter infrastructure, based on concepts like collaboration, education and innovation, means a better Australia for future generations. Webuild’s ‘Infrastructure in Action’ podcast series engage some of the world’s best engineering minds to discuss the future ...

Leveraging on its past years of annual researches with thought leaders, academics, policy-makers, industrials and financial players, Vauban Infrastructure Partners with the support of Altermind, has decided to create an open platform in March 2024: InfraVision, think tank for sustainable infrastructure. This year we are exploring the concept of inclusion in the infrastructure sector, based on a series of original events including several podcasts and workshops. The study will be presented during the Paris InfraWeek in November 2024.

Australians are changing. By 2042, the number of Australians over 85 will double to over one million. There’ll be greater rates of chronic disease, more people requiring specialist aged care, more people living with disability. By 2041, there’ll also be six million more people living in this country. Our nation will require more hospital beds, childcare centres, disability housing, student accommodation, seniors living and other housing. For the sake of our future community, it’s time for open conversations about what infrastructure we must deliver and who will deliver it. This podcast ...

Physical infrastructure in the United States is crumbling. The American Society of Civil Engineers has, in its latest report, given American roads and bridges a grade of D and C+, respectively, and has described roughly 65,000 bridges in the United States as 'structurally deficient'. This crisis - and one need look no further than the I-35W bridge collapse in Minnesota to see that it is indeed a crisis - shows little sign of abating short of a massive change in attitude amongst politicians and the American public.

Just after 6 PM on August 1, 2007, at the peak of rush hour, 111 vehicles were driving across the I-35W bridge over the Mississippi River in downtown Minneapolis when a thin metal plate in the bridge’s central span ripped. The bridge collapsed, plunging vehicles and passengers into the river more than 60 feet below. Thirteen people died, and 145 were injured.

When working well, the infrastructure we use is all but invisible. Its seamless integration into our daily lives means we rarely stop to think "How did this get here?" Sounds Like Infrastructure reveals the secrets and stories behind some of the world’s biggest infrastructure projects. Learn more at Ferrovial.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Over the past three millennia, China has made three attempts to project its economic pow-er westward. The first began in the second century BC, during the Han dynasty, when China’s imperial rulers developed the ancient Silk Road to trade with the far-off residents of Central Asia and the Mediterranean basin; the fall of the Mongol empire and the rise of European maritime trading eventually rendered that route obsolete.

A field guide to the memorials, museums, and practices that commemorate white supremacy in the United States—and how to reimagine a more deeply shared cultural infrastructure for the future Cultural infrastructure has been designed to maintain structures of inequality, and while it doesn’t...

Derrière chaque minute de travail, il y a des vies. Chaque instant, chaque regard compte, tout semble si bien rôdé. Mais parfois, en une fraction de seconde, tout peut basculer.Lignes de vies est un hommage musical et passionné aux agents RATP Infrastructures. Laissez-vous porter par ces mots qui racontent leur histoire, leur réalité, leur quotidien, et tous ces instants où la vigilance est la clé.Un podcast RATP Infrastructures, produit par Bababam. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

"Big Data" is on the covers of Science, Nature, The Economist, and Wired magazines, on the front pages of the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. But despite the media hyperbole, as Christine Borgman points out in this examination of data and scholarly research, having the right data is usually better than having more data; little data can be just as valuable as big data. Borgman, an often-cited authority on scholarly communication, argues that data have no value or meaning in isolation; they exist within a knowledge infrastructure.

Infrastructure is—finally—having its moment. From transit systems to supply chains, policymakers, entrepreneurs, and others are evaluating whether our civic infrastructure is up to the task of supporting a growing—and warming—globe. In each episode of Beneath the Surface, we explore some of the most complicated challenges facing our world, and talk to the people who are rolling up their sleeves to build solutions. Find out more about Stripe Press: https://press.stripe.com