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Urban Design: The Grand Challenge
Urban Design: The Grand Challenge
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list of the top 20 engineering achievements of the twentieth century and predicted what I thought the engineering challenges in the twenty-first century would be, especially (1) the development of complex systems, particularly as they apply to infrastructure, and (2)
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water supplies enabled cities to switch technologies from the use of privy vaults, cesspools, and private sewers for wastewater and sewage disposal to a technology that used large amounts of water as the medium for diluting and transporting wastes beyond the city boundary. In the intervening years, the main supplement to these systems has been the treatment of wastewater streams before discharge.
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In tackling this grand challenge, engineers must address a number of key questions: Will more stringent environmental and safety requirements limit the technical options in certain economic sectors but increase the options in other sectors? Should we look for alternative methods of waste disposal or recycling?
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If we begin to address these problems now, our successors in 2100 will note that in the year 2000, we began a quest to use Earth systems engineering to make significant, beneficial changes in urban design. REFERENCES NAE (National Academy of Engineering)
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