Digital infrastructures
Subtitle: enabling civil and environmental systems through information technology
By: edited by Rae Zimmerman and Thomas Horan.
Contributors: Zimmerman, Rae.; Horan, Thomas A.
Series: Networked cities series
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Infrastructure (Economics); Technological innovations -- Economic aspects -- Case studies.
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: value: Overview; value: What are digital infrastructures? / Rae Zimmerman and Thomas Horan; value: Technology and engineering dimensions / William O'Brien and Luis Soibelman; value: Management challenges / Thomas Horan and Roy Sparrow; value: Policy perspectives / Jonathan Gifford; value: Infrastructure cases: Water / Rae Zimmerman; value: Transportation / Christopher Cluett; value: Electricity / Massoud Amin; value: Telecommunications / Mitchell Moss and Anthony Townsend; value: Crosscutting issues; value: Economics of information technology / David Henry and Jess Dumagan; value: Infrastructure and its dimensions in the developing world / Carlos Restrepo; value: Green design principles / Timothy Beatley; value: Earth systems engineering / Braden Allenby; value: Conclusion; value: Themes and new directions / Thomas Horan and Rae Zimmerman.