Charles Marohn was a municipal engineer who mainta...  ...g for the cost of maintaining the vast and costly infrastructure systems, so the only way to keep the machine goin...  ...orks is that a town lays the pipes, plumbing, and infrastructure for housing development—often getting big l...  .... Developer...

The vast majority of the food in your home depends...  ...home depends upon a complicated, energy-dependent infrastructure called "the cold chain." Frozen, fresh, refrigera...  ...f. An exhibit by Nicola Twilley on this invisible infrastructure called "Perishable: An Exploration of the Refrige...

New York is no stranger to radical change, as evid...  ...and even the size of Manhattan Island. But those infrastructure changes seem tame compared to the ones that were...

Special bridges and overpasses have been built around the world to accommodate the natural movement of animals that have been interrupted by our road systems. These structures keep to keep the animals safe and unrestrict...

Venice is sinking very slowly -only about two inches every 100 years. But worse, the Adriatic sea is rising around Venice as well. A proposed plan to save the Italian city involves "inflating" its porous foundation with...

The River Fleet in London is a tidal river that once provided water for many industries. Over the years, it became quite polluted, then was consigned to flow underneath the city as London grew, until it was eventually in...

China plans to merge nine cities along the Pea...  ...omy. Over the next six years, around 150 major infrastructure projects will mesh the transport, energy, water a...