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Agency of the Subsurface

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Modeled after NASA or the ESA , this new institute would spend its time, in his words, “ looking downward instead of up.” I had the pleasure of tagging along with both Trinks and Campana last year as part of my Graham Foundation grant, “ Invisible Cities ,” and a brief write-up of that experience is now online over at WIRED.

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Why the Unsexy Sewers Beneath Our Feet Are Key to Safeguarding the Future

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Both are consequences of increased evaporation, according to NASA researchers.) Some critics think the Tideway’s £4 billion price tag is excessive, particularly because some of it falls to customers, whose water bills are rising to cover the ballooning cost. (By Projects on this scale aren’t universally adored.

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Architectural Graphic Standards | Life of an Architect

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Some of the larger production commercial firms had the resources to buy “CAD Stations” and dedicate substantial office space to server rooms complete with NASA-looking tape storage systems, but most firms were still drawing things by hand. Window tags _in plan??_ Perhaps that will be a New Year’s resolution.

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