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Global challenges such as climate change, food security and the finite nature of fossil raw material sources are putting the traditionally innovation-intensive urban infrastructure systems of supply and disposal under pressure to change. And that's a good thing. Helke Wendt-Schwarzburg, Susanne Schön and Axel Dierich discuss how to keep an eye on the risks as well as the opportunities in the innovation process in their recently published book article " Lange Zeit war Ruhe... Promises and risks of cross-sector infrastructure design".

To this end, they refer to three instruments that inter 3 has developed for such forward-looking planning: The Acceptance Radar, the Risk Radar, and the Prosperity Radar.

This is an essay worth reading for all pioneers in the infrastructure sector who want to drive the design of new infrastructure solutions that are both necessary and full of opportunities, and who want to be prepared for unintended 'risks and side effects'. It has just been published in the anthology "StadtLandschaften. The New Hybridity of City and Countryside" published by Springer VS.