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Based on research primarily centred in US regions and megaregions, but applicable more broadly, this presentation shares two infrastructural opportunism case studies: the interstate 11 (I11) Supercorridor in the Southwest megaregion of the US and the Northside-Southside MetroLink light rail line in the midwest US city of St. Louis, Missouri. Offering sharply contrasting geographic and demographic conditions, these two projects are utilized as sites for interdisciplinary urban design students and research partners to collaborate with real-world project stakeholders to help shift the paradigm away from predictable and resource-intensive solutions towards next generation infrastructure. | Based on research primarily centred in US regions and megaregions, but applicable more broadly, this presentation shares two infrastructural opportunism case studies: the interstate 11 (I11) Supercorridor in the Southwest megaregion of the US and the Northside-Southside MetroLink light rail line in the midwest US city of St. Louis, Missouri. Offering sharply contrasting geographic and demographic conditions, these two projects are utilized as sites for interdisciplinary urban design students and research partners to collaborate with real-world project stakeholders to help shift the paradigm away from predictable and resource-intensive solutions towards next generation infrastructure. | ||
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Revision as of 07:15, 28 November 2021
Speaker: Linda Samuels, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Chair: Jennifer Clark, The Ohio State University, USA
As global populations become more urbanized, wealth distribution more inequitable, and climate change impacts more severe, the pressure on our interconnected natural and synthetic infrastructural systems to maintain basic quality of life standards grows more and more intense. Infrastructural optimism is the concept that a more socially equitable and ecologically intact future is paramount to the universal right to the city and can be more readily produced through collaborative design and planning utilizing principles of infrastructural urbanism and strategies of infrastructural opportunism. If infrastructural optimism is the luxury of reinvention in the already fertile soil of progressive political leadership, supportive agencies, engaged and willing residents, and abundant financial backing, infrastructural opportunism – leveraging large infrastructure investment for greater social and environmental gains – is the vehicle through which more challenged contexts have the chance to equalize that footing.
Based on research primarily centred in US regions and megaregions, but applicable more broadly, this presentation shares two infrastructural opportunism case studies: the interstate 11 (I11) Supercorridor in the Southwest megaregion of the US and the Northside-Southside MetroLink light rail line in the midwest US city of St. Louis, Missouri. Offering sharply contrasting geographic and demographic conditions, these two projects are utilized as sites for interdisciplinary urban design students and research partners to collaborate with real-world project stakeholders to help shift the paradigm away from predictable and resource-intensive solutions towards next generation infrastructure.
