Infrastructural Optimism - Hardback

1) The appeal of the content is broadly interdisciplinary and informative to a range of readers, from practitioners andreal project stakeholders to academics, students, and scholars.2) The case sites vary in scale, scope and geography, from booming American cities to those struggling withdisinvestment. The cases are also typological, allowing them to be broadly applicable to other cities and sites.3) The infrastructural categories also vary in type including waterways, roads, rail, transit, energy, housing, healthand food. Every city is facing infrastructural crises of some kind and can see their own challenges reflected in thecontent of the text.4) The methodologies include research and analysis related to the cases directly, but also projective, speculativethinking that explores the role of both innovation and design in next generation infrastructure. Typically books areeither focused on design speculation or on the analysis of existing cases, but not both. Cities are looking for creativesolutions, and this text provides bridges between real challenges and innovative thinking.