The ears of architects, engineers, landscape architects, and urban planners may have collectively pricked up when Biden and Harris as candidates began touting a campaign slogan last summer of “Building Back Better.” So far, the executive orders and proposals in the administration’s early days suggest quite a lot of industry mobilization to support new clean-energy plants, new infrastructure, and new housing.
The administration, transitioning during a global pandemic and at a time of domestic unrest, has as its immediate priorities managing the Covid crisis and vaccine distribution, of course, while trying to rebuild democracy within a country that seems anything but united. At the same time, work is beginning immediately on an issue that would be top priority in any year: climate change.
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