This study aims to develop rules of thumb for the financial conditions city livability. These will provide a practical guide local government leaders managing finances on how realize livable city. identifies three indicators that characterize city’s livability, namely its operating capacity, flexibility, and commitment maintain services. The standards each these is 1.20 times capacity ratio, 0....

What is Intelligent Infrastructure? While our nation’s cities and communities face increasingly serious challenges brought on by an aging and inadequate physical infrastructure, rapid advances in computing and communications have radically transformed cyberinfrastructure industries in the US economy. These technologies have the potential to similarly transform our cities and communities; improv...

Building on a solid foundation of performance testing, quantitative genetics, and statistical estimation of breeding values; recent developments in pig line improvement programs have included the application of both major gene and marker genomics, and an increased focus on genotype by environment interactions and crossbred selection objectives. Additionally, selection objectives have broadened ...

Urban infrastructures, to fully take advantage of future investments, must first be recognized as interconnected complex systems systems. This forum paper describes research and education needs that, if properly addressed, could prepare the civil engineering profession meet new challenges urban infrastructure renovation. Among needs, objective documentation life-cycle performance constructed le...

Following the global trend of economic and social change, urbanization has been increasing. The trend that has dominated in recent decades in developing countries is the outshining of growth over development which has challenged the maintaining and improving the city residents’ quality of life. One of the most recent topics in the theory of urbanism in response to the decline of urban life h...

At the closing of the second millennium our civilization can boast a remarkable progress in technological developments which have been growing at an exponential pace. Telecommunications, jumbo-jets and personal computers have become ubiquitous in many countries in recent decades. In the "softer" area of managing complex systems, and even more so in economic, social and ethical aspects, our achi...