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WHAT I WOULD BUILD

TIME asked leading experts to share their big infrastructure ideas

MAYA LIN

My dream project is to rethink what a landfill could be. If you recycled all that you could––and made sure nothing toxic was allowed in––you could recoup billions in resources and make the most beautiful landscaped earthworks.

Lin is a designer, an architect and an environmentalist

STEVE CASE

Building high-speed fiber networks nationwide will not only democratize Internet access, bringing affordable

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