Accelerating Urbanization Presents Daunting Engineering Challenge
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 - 21:21
in Physics & Chemistry
Ensuring the world's fast-growing urban regions function efficiently in the future will demand a much more complex public infrastructure than anything yet designed. Engineers are facing challenges of not only dealing with information, communication and public-utility systems that are themselves becoming more complicated, but must develop the technological advances necessary to effectively interconnect and control these systems on larger scales than anything achieved to date.