The public infrastructure of work and play A citys infrastructure influences the daily life of residents neighborhoods and businesses. But uniting the hard infrastructure of roads and bridges with the soft infrastructure of parks and public art creates significant political challenges. Planners at all stages must work at an intersection of public policy markets and aesthetics while also accounting for how a project will work in both the present and the future. The latest volume in the Urban Agenda series looks at pressing infrastructure issues discussed at the 2017 UIC Urban Forum. Topics include competing notions of the infrastructure ideal; what previous large infrastructure programs can teach the Trump Administration; how infrastructure influences city design; the architecture of the cities of tomorrow; who benefits from infrastructure improvements; and evaluations of projects like the Chicago Riverwalk and grassroots efforts to reclaim neighborhood parks from gangs Back cover The infrastructural ideal: expansive contested eroding Philip Ashton Infrastructure of urban play Charles Hoch Planning and financing infrastructure in the Trump years: what can the administration learn from previous large infrastructure programs Beverly Bunch The built environment: how infrastructure shapes city design today and tomorrow Sanjeev Vidyarthi The city within and the architecture around: architecture of tomorrows city Sean Lally The power to move people: public art and public transit Bill Burton.