I need your help. My editor asked me to think about a book cover for my non-fiction book: The Infrastructure Book (#TIB), where we learn about 7 infrastructure systems through 16 cities.

What are some of your favorite book covers? What styles do you recommend?

So this happened 👇. I'm so thrilled about this book deal with Prometheus which published amazing authors, including Isaac Asimov!

The first draft is ready, but it will require a whole more work before it comes out in spring 2025.

I will post about the process along the way.

What an amazingly productive few days in Shanghai working on the #UNEP GEO-7 report! I’ve never been so exhausted and energized at the same time.

While I am not a big fan of #LEOsatellites and satellite Internet constellations, I must acknowledge that they have become part of the infrastructure ecosystem. Scroll down on https://sybilderrible.com/ to learn more and watch a video of a rocket launch during a visit to FL.

A family holiday inspired me to write a new short story (5 min read): scroll down on https://sybilderrible.com/writings.html

I wish I had more time for fiction writing. It's a lot of fun.

Earlier this week, I rode the tiny, quirky, cute Fenelon Place Elevator in Dubuque, IA. I love the reason why it was built in the first place... scroll down on https://sybilderrible.com/.

I am taking my dedication to making the world more sustainable and more livable to a higher level by becoming a Lead Author on the 7th Edition of the #UnitedNations Environmental Program (#UNEP)'s Global Environmental Outlook (#GEO7): https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/video/geo-7-journey-has-begun

Conventional #publictransport models are outdated and bound to fail.... but with some transformations, the future of #transit is bright.

Here's a nice (and obvious) start from Quebec to serve low-density areas.

Two words: #flexible and #ondemand
https://www.theenergymix.com/2023/04/30/too-good-to-be-true-mobile-app-brings-on-demand-transit-to-quebec-communities/

#Infrastructure systems are interrelated. When we are home consuming #electricity, we are not on #roads generating traffic.

Policies that affect one infrastructure affect all infrastructures.

WE MUST TAKE THESE INTERRELATIONSHIPS INTO ACCOUNT!!!

Read our paper in #ScientificReports: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-33133-y

Amazing new article on #Interdependencies between #Transport, #Water, and #SolidWaste #Infrastructure Systems by Poornima Jayasinghe and Lina Kattan: https://doi.org/10.3390/infrastructures8040076

#GREATNEWSALERT: I have received the 2023 #ASCE Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize: https://www.asce.org/career-growth/awards-and-honors/walter-l-huber-civil-engineering-research-prizes

I am super stoked.

From #Wikipedia, the prize is "the highest level mid-career research award in all areas of civil engineering.": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_L._Huber_Civil_Engineering_Research_Prize

For ChatGPT users, ask the algorithm what the award is 😀 .

#Nature will launch a new journal in 2024: Nature Cities, and is hiring a full-time editor (e.g., post-doc in urban engineering).

The Chief Editor contacted me if I had anyone to recommend. Let me know if you would like an introduction.

Learn more at https://careers.springernature.com/job/London-Associate-or-Senior-Editor%2C-Nature-Cities/912990901/

DISCLAIMER: This new short story will make you hungry!

Come on Margaret, will you stop?

https://sybilderrible.com/writings.html#fiction

(7 min read – practicing dialogues in this new short story)

In my CME440 class Cities and Sustainability, Banuprasad Velumani produced an amazing poster on the history of civilization and urbanization.

Find a full-resolution version at https://csun.uic.edu/

Why isn’t the Ohio train derailment making more headlines? It’s an enormous and predictable catastrophe that will have very long lasting impacts on human health and the environment: https://apple.news/AiWEbhfaeQ1OxVIX5xjnArw

I reviewed the book "Sustainable infrastructure for cities and societies" by Michael Neuman for the Journal of #UrbanAffairs.

My main takeaway: everyone should read and re-read at least Part 1.

Find my review at https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2023.2167787

Find the book at https://www.routledge.com/Sustainable-Infrastructure-for-Cities-and-Societies/Neuman/p/book/9780367340247

Monday morning. It's cold outside. Give yourself a break, read my latest #shortstory: "A TGV Sas, Early Afternoon, on a Monday": https://derrible.people.uic.edu/writings.html#fiction

Actually, we're not hiring 1 but 2 new faculty.

Tenure track: https://uic.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/2523?c=uic

Teaching track: https://uic.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/2689?c=uic

Looking for a faculty position in #environmentalengineering ? Apply to join a phenomenal department: https://uic.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/2523

I’d been hearing about the coal-mine protests in Germany, but this photo by Sean Gallup is the first that gave me a real sense of the titanic size of the thing and what’s being protested. Just… unreal.