Cities and Their Vital Systems Infrastructure Past, Present, and Future (1988) / Chapter Skim
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SIAMAK A ARDEKANT is assistant professor of civil engineering at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
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He then served for 2~/2 years as a research scholar in the resources and environment area at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, near Vienna, Austria. From 1981 to 1983 he served as a National Research Council staff officer principally responsible for studies of the greenhouse effect.
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He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. HARVEY BROOKS is Benjamin Peirce Professor of Technology and Public Policy, Emeritus, and Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, Harvard University.
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In the late 1960s, he was president of the Washington Center for Metropolitan Studies, an interuniversity urban research institute. During the 1970s, he served as chairman of the Montgomery County Planning Board of the Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission.
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Dr. Lees has been a visiting fellow at the Joint Center for Urban Studies of Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Shelby Cullom Davis Center of Princeton University, and at the University of Leicester in England.
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From 1975 to mid-1987, he was at the Institute for Energy Analysis at Oak Ridge Associated Universities and before that he was assistant professor of geology at Indiana State University. He is the author or coauthor of many scientific papers on energy systems, energy resources, and the environmental impacts of energy systems, in particular the CO2-greenhouse issue.
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