:enabling civil and environmental systems through information technology
/ edited by Rae Zimmerman and Thomas Horan
xvii, 254 pages
: illustrations ; 25 cm.
(The networked cities series)
Title from e-book title screen (viewed October 16, 2007).
GMD: electronic resource.
e
Includes bibliographical references and index.
What are Digital Infrastructures? / Rae Zimmerman, Thomas Horan -- Technology and Engineering Dimensions: Collecting and Interpreting New Information for Civil and Environmental Infrastructure Management / William O'Brien, Lucio Soibelman -- Management Challenges / Thomas Horan, Roy Sparrow -- Policy Perspectives / Jonathan Gifford -- Infrastructure Sectors -- Water / Rae Zimmerman -- Transportation / Christopher Cluett -- Electricity / Massoud Amin -- Telecommunications: Catastrophe and Recovery in the Information City / Mitchell Moss, Anthony Townsend -- Crosscutting Themes -- Economic Impacts: The Growing Use of Information Technology in Infrastructure Industries / David Henry, Jesus Dumagan -- Infrastructure and IT Dimensions in the Developing World / Carlos Restrepo -- Green Design and Intelligent Buildings / Timothy Beatley -- Infrastructure in the Age of Earth Systems Engineering and Management (ESEM) / Braden Allenby -- Themes and New Directions / Thomas Horan, Rae Zimmerman.