“It is incumbent on us to drastically re-think how we design infrastructure. It is quite possible that mono-functional infrastructure is dead. Infrastructure cannot just do one thing anymore – it must do many things – ecologically, socially, and financially. It must produce as much as it exhausts. It must seek out new ways of generating value. It must couple, triple, and quadruple functions wherever possible.”
—Infrastructure Is Dead, Long Live Infrastructure « Volume
April 2012
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“Obviously parking is better for ridership than surrounding the station with an ocean of lava, but around the world you generally see the most-used train stations surrounded by buildings.”
—Matt Yglesias - Build Stuff Near Train Stations
