Smart infrastructure can provide cost-saving ways for municipalities to handle both infrastructure and social needs. And we want to shift the systems that open the doors for people who were formerly tax burdens to become part of the tax base.
Interpretation
Smart infrastructure helps municipalities save costs and integrate disadvantaged communities into the economy.
This quote emphasizes the importance of utilizing advanced infrastructure solutions to not only address physical needs but also to improve social conditions. Majora Carter advocates for a transformative approach where the systems in place can turn individuals who were once seen as financial burdens into contributing members of society, thereby enhancing both the community and the economy.
In practice
In a speech about urban development, this quote can highlight the need for innovative infrastructure solutions.
Poor people of all colors are getting poorer and our communities are getting more toxic. There is a misconception that to grow our economy we will have to do business as usual, because cleaning up the environment, mitigating climate change is just too costly. Well, I say the business of poverty is just too expensive a bill for humanity to pay any longer.
Environmental justice [means that] no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other.
One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.
Environmental justice, for those of you who may not be familiar with the term, goes something like this: no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other.
I personally think that gentrification happens long before you start seeing white people in formerly people-of-color neighborhoods. It starts happening when we start telling the young, hard-working, quote-unquote 'smart' kids that they need to measure success by how far they get away from our communities.
We need to work together to embrace and repair our land, repair our power systems, and repair ourselves. It's time to stop building the shopping malls, the prisons, the stadiums, and other tributes to all of our collective failures.
The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.
Virality, at its core, is asking someone to spend their social capital recommending or linking or posting about you for free.
There are big lines between those who play video games and those who do not. For those who don't, video games are irrelevant. They think all video games must be too difficult.
Without sounding too cliché, the Internet really is the birth of some kind of global mind.
When you factor in population growth, it's clear that the mobility model that we have today simply will not work tomorrow. Four billion clean cars on the road are still four billion cars, and a traffic jam with no emissions is still a traffic jam.
As more intelligent computer assistance comes into being, it will amplify human progress.
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