KPNR: America’s Interstates a National Achievment

Dan McNichol on the U.S. Interstate System

Excerpt from KPR:

“Dan McNichol is the author of “The Roads That Built America: The Incredible Story of the U.S. Interstate System,” (link is external) and he’ll be speaking tonight (THUR) at the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City about how this marvel of engineering and civil planning was […]

Boston’s High Line

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Placemaking: The Northern Avenue Bridge restored gives Bostonians and its visitors a place to play in the Atlantic Ocean. The bridge intersects: Innovation and Financial Districts, water and land transportation systems, The Greenway and The Harbor Walk public parks. 
Re-activating […]

Stalking A Dream

 

The Great Recession wiped out my work, my nest egg and my marriage. With a tad of hope and a ton desperation I turned to a friend. “Per Christiansen, pronounced like the fruit,” is how he introduced himself a dozen years earlier when I showed up at his garage with a project car in tow. […]

Holistic U.S. Infrastructure

Let’s look at the megillah – the whole picture – of America’s failing infrastructure: Critical US systems are silo-ed – especially by experts. Laymen depend on professionals to see infrastructure wholly: water, waste, transit, energy, aviation, rivers, sewage, road, brown-fields, parks, schools, levees…
I spent the past 3 years touring America’s vital systems in a beat […]