Infrastructural Optimism: Reshaping Urban America

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
FOREWORD / Imagining the Architecture of Possible Futures
INTRODUCTION / The Importance of Optimism
	The Case for Optimism
	And then, 2020…
	Our Optimistic Imperative
	Infrastructural Opportunism → Infrastructural Urbanism → Infrastructural Optimism
01. INFRASTRUCTURAL URBANISM in the Expanded Field
	Two Decades of Urbanisms: New, Everyday, Landscape / Ecological → Infrastructural
	Infrastructural Urbanism: Two Lineages
		Infrastructure as Architecture
		Architecture as Infrastructure
		Landscape as Infrastructure
	Infrastructure in the Expanded Field
02. REINVENTING INFRASTRUCTURE / Why Now?
	Three Colliding Crises
		Infrastructure Crisis: Collapse + Inequity + Underfunding
		Environmental Crisis
		Economic Collapse
	Three Evolutions
		New Forms of Activism
		Demonstration Projects
		Changes in the Urbanism Discourse
	Capitalizing on the Perfect Storm: WPA 2.0 and Next Generation Infrastructure
		Next Generation Infrastructure Criteria
		Perfect Storm
	Practice Case Studies: PITCH_AFRICA, Kalundborg Symbiosis, Sixth Street Viaduct
	WPA 2.0 Finalists
03. INFRASTRUCTURAL OPPORTUNISM / Three Strategies
	All Growth is Not Good Growth
	Broadening the Process, Transforming the Prototype, and Measuring What Really Matters to Evolve the Paradigm
04. INFRASTRUCTURAL OPPORTUNISM / Two Cases
	I-11 Supercorridor
		I-11 Supercorridor Studio
		Mapping and Methods
		Green Arrow Solutions / Findings
		I-11 Supercorridor: Studio Projects
		After the Projects: I-11 Supercorridor Impacts
	Mobility For All By All: Northside-Southside MetroLink Expansion
		MFABA Studio: Megaregion to Rail
		City, County, and Regional Mapping
		Northside-Southside Metrolink: Studio Projects
		After the Projects: MFABA Impacts
		A New Greenway
	The Slow Pace of Implementation
05. CONCLUSION: Next Generation +10 / Options for a Contentious Era
	WPA 2.0 + 10
	Make No Little Plans / Infrastructure As Public Works
06. Notes from Sheltering in Place
	Post-COVID Urbanism and Three Scales of Opportunity
		National and Megaregional: Zero-Emissions Logistics, Geographic Symbiosis, Equitable Access and Distribution
		City & Metro: Rethink Multi-modality, Value the Commons, Make All Infrastructure Next Gen Infrastructure
		Neighborhood, Block, and Lot: Protect Density, Celebrate Cohesion, Support Local Micro-economies and Closed-Loop Living
		Twelve Criteria for Next Generation Infrastructure
CREDITS
INDEX