
“We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as 'inevitable,' when cities are constantly growing... We must set ourselves about the task of improving them..“ –Theodore Roosevelt, The City in Modern Life (1926)
The tasks ‘have’ begun. Rapid urbanization has forced the need to improve our cities. The stress on municipal (legacy) infrastructures has reached an all-time high. Yet, most of our municipalities are operating with little-to-no budget.