Considering sustainability in its economic, environmental and social contexts, the contributors take stock of previous research on large technical systems and discuss their sustainability from three main perspectives: uses, cities, and rules and institutions.

Contents:
Part 1. Introduction 1. Metropolitan Areas as Global Crossroads: Moving People, Goods, and Information in the International Economy Part 2. Cutting-Edge Infrastructures of Movement 2. Intelligent Transportation Systems: Creating Operational, Institutional, and Workforce Changes in the United States 3. Integrated Infrastructures for Moving Goods in the Digital Age 4. Ports as They Will Be: Designs for the Twenty-First Century 5. Moving Information in the Twenty-First Century Part 3. Decision Making 6. Financing New Infrastructures in the U.K.: Public/Private Partnerships and Private Finance Initiatives 7. An Exchange on Building U.S. Road Capacity 7.1. The Politics of Gridlock 7.2. Metropolitan Transportation Politics 8. How Decisions Are Made: An Interview with Albert Appleton on Changing Minds about an Urban Expressway 9. China's Information Technology Infrastructure: Who Built It Part 4. Social and Environmental Issues 11. Social and Environmental Dimensions of Cutting-Edge Infrastructures 12. Integrating Urban Infrastructures of Movement: A Vision of Sustainability 13. Constructing Premium Network Spaces: Reflections on Infrastructure Networks and Contemporary Urban Development 14. The Infrastructure Workforce: Issues and Challenges for Policy Makers. Part 5. A Focus City: Moving People, Goods, and Information in Singapore 15. Roads and Rails: Electronic Road Pricing and the Rapid Transport Network 16. Singapore and the Sea: International Trade and the City-State 17. Singapore's Intelligent Corridors: A Model for Planning and Locating the Movement of Information and Knowledge.

Contents:
Part 1. Introduction 1. Metropolitan Areas as Global Crossroads: Moving People, Goods, and Information in the International Economy Part 2. Cutting-Edge Infrastructures of Movement 2. Intelligent Transportation Systems: Creating Operational, Institutional, and Workforce Changes in the United States 3. Integrated Infrastructures for Moving Goods in the Digital Age 4. Ports as They Will Be: Designs for the Twenty-First Century 5. Moving Information in the Twenty-First Century Part 3. Decision Making 6. Financing New Infrastructures in the U.K.: Public/Private Partnerships and Private Finance Initiatives 7. An Exchange on Building U.S. Road Capacity 7.1. The Politics of Gridlock 7.2. Metropolitan Transportation Politics 8. How Decisions Are Made: An Interview with Albert Appleton on Changing Minds about an Urban Expressway 9. China's Information Technology Infrastructure: Who Built It Part 4. Social and Environmental Issues 11. Social and Environmental Dimensions of Cutting-Edge Infrastructures 12. Integrating Urban Infrastructures of Movement: A Vision of Sustainability 13. Constructing Premium Network Spaces: Reflections on Infrastructure Networks and Contemporary Urban Development 14. The Infrastructure Workforce: Issues and Challenges for Policy Makers. Part 5. A Focus City: Moving People, Goods, and Information in Singapore 15. Roads and Rails: Electronic Road Pricing and the Rapid Transport Network 16. Singapore and the Sea: International Trade and the City-State 17. Singapore's Intelligent Corridors: A Model for Planning and Locating the Movement of Information and Knowledge.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone's long-running Comedy Central hit cartoon "South Park" has been equally cheered and reviled for its edgy humor, poited satire of current events and celebrities, and all-around obnoxiousness. But is there more to Kyle, the lonely Jew, Timmy and the Crips, Cartman's bitchiness, Chef's inappropriate advice, and Kenny's continued violent deaths than meets the eye? This collection of essays affirms that possibility. Individual chapters take a sometimes witty, often provocative look at "Is South Park a Libertarian Manifesto?," "That's So Gay!," and "Why Is Cartman Such an Asshole?." The writers apply classical philosophical analysis to this two-dimensional dystopia, whether in Paul Draper's "Why Good Things Happen to Bad People -- The Problem of Evil in South Park" or Randall Auxier's "Finding South Park on the Map: Officer Barbrady, Mayor McDaniel, and Chef in Plato's Republic." "South Park and Philosophy" presents new and thoughtful approaches to understanding this surprisingly meaningful show.

Considering sustainability in its economic, environmental and social contexts, the contributors take stock of previous research on large technical systems and discuss their sustainability from three main perspectives: uses, cities, and rules and institutions.