Infrastructure

A worker walks past solar panels at Centragrid power plant in Nyabira, Zimbabwe, June 22, 2020. Picture taken June 22, 2020. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo

Africa in Focus

Improving infrastructure in Africa: Creating long-term resilience through investment

Alain Ebobissé

Thursday, March 4, 2021

Building

The Avenue

Four lessons from a year of pandemic housing policies

Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Cover photo

The Avenue

How a national network of local leaders is centering racial equity in neighborhood revitalization

Michelle Matthews

Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Wind energy

Climate Change

Blueprints to advance climate change mitigation and resilience

Samantha Gross and Adie Tomer

March 1, 2021

Reports

Wildfire

Climate Change

How a federal Climate Planning Unit can manage built environment risks and costs

Joseph W. Kane, Jenny Schuetz, Shalini Vajjhala, and Adie Tomer

March 1, 2021

Clean energy worker

Infrastructure

How renewable energy jobs can uplift fossil fuel communities and remake climate politics

Adie Tomer, Joseph W. Kane, and Caroline George

February 23, 2021

A few trees burning in a wildfire

Climate Change

The climate wolf at the door

Robert E. Litan and John Fleming

Thursday, February 18, 2021

Electricity tower

Infrastructure

Four steps to undo the harms of legacy infrastructure in the COVID-19 recovery

Shalini Vajjhala and Joseph W. Kane

Thursday, December 17, 2020

Water infrastructure worker

Infrastructure

Prioritize people, not projects: Addressing the harms of legacy infrastructure in the COVID-19 recovery

Joseph W. Kane and Shalini Vajjhala

Thursday, December 17, 2020

Blog Posts

Minister of Finance, Nirmala Sitharaman leaves the North Block of the Central Secretariat building for the Parliament to announce the union budget in New Delhi. (Photo by Ganesh Chandra / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

TechTank

Walking the talk: Infrastructure, privatization, and digital in India’s budget speeches

Friday, February 19, 2021

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo

The Avenue

How Biden can succeed on infrastructure where Trump did not

Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Row of houses

The Avenue

The real estate industry is divesting from Donald Trump—but divesting from white supremacy requires more

Tracy Hadden Loh and Andre M. Perry

Thursday, February 11, 2021

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Events

A conversation about climate change mitigation and resilience

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EST

The great real estate reset: Rethinking how and what we build

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST

How we rebuild: A conversation with President Jin Liqun on the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’s fifth anniversary

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EST

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Related Books

THE HOUSING CHALLENGE IN EMERGING ASIA

Edited by Matthias Helbe and Naoyuki Yoshino

2016

Connecting South Asia and Southeast Asia

By ADBI

2015

Transcontinental Infrastructure Needs to 2030/2050

By Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD

2013

Experts

Joseph W. Kane

Senior Research Associate and Associate Fellow - Metropolitan Policy Program

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Adie Tomer

Fellow - Metropolitan Policy Program

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Blair Levin

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Metropolitan Policy Program

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Multimedia

Washington, DC - April 29, 2017: Thousands of people attend the People's Climate March to stand up against climate change. By Nicole Glass Photography

Podcast Episode

What’s in Biden’s $2 trillion climate plan?

Joseph W. Kane and Adrianna Pita

Friday, July 24, 2020

U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi listens to House Majority Whip James Clyburn and Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone Jr. as they hold a news conference to unveil a $760 billion infrastructure spending bill proposed by House Democrats at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., January 29, 2020. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

Podcast Episode

Will House Democrats’ infrastructure plan yield results?

Adie Tomer and Adrianna Pita

Thursday, February 6, 2020

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other congressional Democrats speak to reporters after their meeting on infrastructure with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 29, 2019. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque - RC134195ACF0

Podcast Episode

Can the administration and Congress move forward on $2 trillion infrastructure plan?

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

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More on Infrastructure

Reels of optical fiber cables are seen in a storage area in Perugia, Italy, June 23, 2017

Connecting the unconnected in rural America

Thursday, February 11, 2021

Clean energy worker

Inclusion must be front and center in President Biden’s focus on clean energy jobs

Mark Muro, Joseph W. Kane, and Adie Tomer

Tuesday, February 9, 2021

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How a Kansas City neighborhood is protecting renters while investing in itself

David Kemper and Kavya Shankar

Tuesday, February 2, 2021

FCC

Biden’s FCC must attend to cybersecurity, 5G development, and data-gathering issues that Trump’s FCC ignored

Tuesday, February 2, 2021

fiber connection

Trump’s FCC failed on broadband access. Now, Biden’s FCC has to clean up the mess

Tuesday, February 2, 2021

Infrastructure workers

Biden needs to create an infrastructure talent pipeline, not just more jobs

Friday, January 29, 2021