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.

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