U.S. infrastructure
(Book - Regular Print)

Breached levees, fallen bridges: is American infrastructure in crisis?. The real infrastructure crisis / Burt Solomon ; Reverse gears: a new reality for public works? / John McCarron ; Look out below! America's infrastructure is crumbling / Eric Kelderman ; American collapse / Sarah Williams Goldhagen ; Infrastructure investment and U.S. competitiveness / Jonathan Masters ; Rebuilding America special report: how to fix American infrastructure / Erik Sofge ; A new bank to save our infrastructure / Felix G. Rohatyn, Everett Ehrlich -- Highways, byways, and railways: transportation infrastructure. Transportation infrastructure: excerpted from America on the move ; Transportation infrastructure: moving America / Robert McMahon ; Failing U.S. transportation system will imperil prosperity, report finds / Ashley Halsey III ; Cars, highways, and the poor / Yonah Freemark ; The U.S. must invest in infrastructure / Mark Laluan ; Clogged arteries / Bruce Katz, Robert Puentes ; King of the road / Alex Marshall ; Shifting gears: breaking our addiction to cars / David Carroll Cochran --

The train debate: can rail revolutionize American transport?. Bullet trains for America? / Mark Reutter ; All aboard? Bullet trains may be sidetracked, but not commuter rail / Peter A. Harkness ; Leaping into light rail: cities in the south and west are writing a new chapter in the history of transit / Zach Patton ; Accelerating Amtrak: will superfast train service in the northeast ever happen? / Alex Marshall ; Money train / Philip Klein

The grid: power and communications networks. The 21st century grid: can we fix the infrastructure that powers our lives? / Joel Achenbach ; Problems facing our energy infrastructure / Ben Prawdzik ; Are you afraid of the dark? / Jared Wade ; Electric intelligence: establishing a smart grid requires regulatory reform, not subsidies / Lynne Kiesling ; Wiring the revolution / Thomas K. Grose

From taps to toilets: waterworks. At the breaking point / Robert Barkin ; Blue technology can quench America's thirst / Laura Shenkar ; Not just a "water problem" / Jeff Gunderson ; Water at the crossroads / Jennifer Grzeskowiak ; Add water systems to U.S. infrastructure challenges, says Infrastructure 2010: an investment imperative / Urban Land Institute (ULI).