Contents
Preface 6
Introduction: Why a Center for Advanced Urbanism at MIT? 8
Adele Naude Santos, Eran Ben-Joseph and Nader Tehrani
1 transportation infrastructure as our commons
(An Introduction to the Conference) 14
Alexander D'Hooghe
2 the infrastructural monument
Notes on infrastructural Monuments 24
Christopher Lee
Remarks on a New Era of Infrastructure Investment 32
James L. Oberstar
The Alliance, Design and Politics of Infrastructure 38
Henk Ovink
The Oceanic Turn: Infrastructure for Inundation 46
Pierre Belanger
3 taking advantage of infrastructural redundancy
Infrastructural Urbanism 54
Stan Allen
Maximizing Underused Infrastructure Connections 60
Don Briggs
Redundant Infrastructure or Supply-Based Development Incentive? 66
Stephen Ramos
Infrastructure as Leviathan? 74
Robert Levit
4 marrying infrastructure design and urban development
Battery Power: Recharging Architecture's Causes and Effects 84
Roger Sherman
Supply-Chain Architecture and the Public Trust 92
Alex Klatskin
Crowdsourcing: Who Will Design Tomorrow's Infrastructure? 98
Jo Guldi
5 confirming the intermodal station as a viable alternative
Multimodal Infrastructure, the Contemporary Monument 114
Marcel Smets
High-Speed Rail as Driver for New Multimodal Developments 120
Petra Todorovich Messick
The Pioneering Role of Logistics in the Development of Multi modal Platforms 128
Stephen Crosby
Public Spaces for the Multimodal Fragment 134
Cino Zucchi
6 in memoriam: Manuel de sola-morales, city choreographer
City Choreographer 144
Lorena Bello Gomez
Contributors 156
Acknowledgments 168