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Annibal José Scavarda - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Sustainable Urban Infrastructure: A review
Resources Conservation and Recycling, 2018Co-Authors: Ana Luiza Carvalho Ferrer, Antônio Márcio Tavares Thomé, Annibal José ScavardaAbstract:Urban Infrastructure is a multifaceted concept that goes beyond a set of engineered facilities, utilities, and systems. It is equally a place for local and global governance, intertwining issues of economic growth, climate change, and municipal waste. The concept of sustainability is relatively new and it encompasses a multidisciplinary field made of engineering, economic, social, and environmental sciences. Research in sustainable Urban Infrastructure is a new and ever evolving field. This paper offers a verifiable and reproducible systematic literature review of sustainable Urban Infrastructure, electronically analysing and scrutinizing 995 papers for the co-occurrence of keywords. It aims to answer two research questions: (i) what are the sustainable Urban Infrastructure prevailing themes and (ii) how have these themes evolved? The main themes identified were storm-water, developing countries, cities, investments, Urban areas, environmental impact, life cycle, climate change, Urban Infrastructure, and vulnerability. Sustainable Urban Infrastructure themes have evolved from modernity in Urbanism, slum areas, and degradation of Urban spaces in the mid of last century to ecological views of the built environment and Urban networks. The taxonomy of themes and the analysis of its evolution led to a research agenda on disaster mitigation, maintenance and sustainability of facilities and utilities, Urban metabolism and vulnerabilities, e-city, and communication networks.
Wu Wentin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Research on PPP of Urban Infrastructure Project——Basing on the Theory of Value Integration
Urban Studies, 2010Co-Authors: Wu WentinAbstract:To address the shortage of supply of Urban Infrastructure,a large amount of private capital is required to participate in construction and operation of the Urban Infrastructure project.At present,the policy has allowed the private capital to participate in such project through project financing pattern(such as BOT, TOT and PPP,etc.).In order to attract more private capital to participate in construction and operation of the Urban Infrastructure project,to avoid or reduce the loss of public welfare,this paper proposed of a new investment and financing pattern,which is cored on Urban Infrastructure,according to the relevant projects integration and basis on value integration theory.So the purpose of this paper is to provide a new way for the private capital to participate in the construction and operation of Urban Infrastructure.
Ana Luiza Carvalho Ferrer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Sustainable Urban Infrastructure: A review
Resources Conservation and Recycling, 2018Co-Authors: Ana Luiza Carvalho Ferrer, Antônio Márcio Tavares Thomé, Annibal José ScavardaAbstract:Urban Infrastructure is a multifaceted concept that goes beyond a set of engineered facilities, utilities, and systems. It is equally a place for local and global governance, intertwining issues of economic growth, climate change, and municipal waste. The concept of sustainability is relatively new and it encompasses a multidisciplinary field made of engineering, economic, social, and environmental sciences. Research in sustainable Urban Infrastructure is a new and ever evolving field. This paper offers a verifiable and reproducible systematic literature review of sustainable Urban Infrastructure, electronically analysing and scrutinizing 995 papers for the co-occurrence of keywords. It aims to answer two research questions: (i) what are the sustainable Urban Infrastructure prevailing themes and (ii) how have these themes evolved? The main themes identified were storm-water, developing countries, cities, investments, Urban areas, environmental impact, life cycle, climate change, Urban Infrastructure, and vulnerability. Sustainable Urban Infrastructure themes have evolved from modernity in Urbanism, slum areas, and degradation of Urban spaces in the mid of last century to ecological views of the built environment and Urban networks. The taxonomy of themes and the analysis of its evolution led to a research agenda on disaster mitigation, maintenance and sustainability of facilities and utilities, Urban metabolism and vulnerabilities, e-city, and communication networks.
Sybil Derrible - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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An approach to designing sustainable Urban Infrastructure
MRS Energy & Sustainability, 2018Co-Authors: Sybil DerribleAbstract:This article offers a conceptual understanding and easily applicable guidelines for sustainable Urban Infrastructure design by focusing on the demand for and supply of the services provided by seven Urban Infrastructure systems. For more than 10,000 years, cities have evolved continuously, often shaped by the challenges they had to face. Similarly, we can imagine that cities will have to evolve again in the future to address their current challenges. Specifically, Urban Infrastructure will need to adapt and use less energy and fewer resources while becoming more resilient. In this article, starting with a definition of sustainability, two Urban Infrastructure sustainability principles (SP) are introduced: (i) controlling the demand and (ii) increasing the supply within reason, which are then applied to seven Urban Infrastructure systems: water, electricity, district heating and cooling and natural gas, telecommunications, transport, solid waste, and buildings. From these principles, a four-step Urban Infrastructure design (UID) process is compiled that can be applied to any Infrastructure project: (i) controlling the demand to reduce the need for new Infrastructure, (ii) integrating a needed service within the current Infrastructure, (iii) making new Infrastructure multifunctional to provide for other Infrastructure systems, and (iv) designing for specific interdependencies and decentralizing Infrastructure if possible. Overall, by first recognizing that Urban Infrastructure systems are inherently integrated and interdependent, this article offers several strategies and guidelines to help design sustainable Urban Infrastructure systems.
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Urban Infrastructure is not a tree: Integrating and decentralizing Urban Infrastructure systems:
Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 2016Co-Authors: Sybil DerribleAbstract:In his original 1965 article, Christopher Alexander argued that master planned cities ultimately failed because the designs elaborated followed a tree structure as opposed to a more desirable semilattice structure present in organic cities. In this article, I argue that a similar claim can be made with Urban Infrastructure systems planning. As cities expanded and became increasingly complex in the 20th century, the responsibility to plan and design Urban Infrastructure was distributed to separate agencies that seldom communicate and coordinate with one another. In the global context to make cities more sustainable and resilient, a better integration of Infrastructure systems may hold much potential. After recalling Alexander’s main concepts, I examine how current Infrastructure systems are naturally interdependent. I then discuss the role of integration, by notably proposing an integration-decentralization matrix, with four quadrants, illustrated by using practical examples. The quadrants are current paradigm, siloed distribution, localized integration, and integrated decentralization. Overall, a better integration of Urban Infrastructure can offer significant benefits to a city, and it may be time to seriously revisit our current Urban Infrastructure systems planning practice.
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Urban Infrastructure is not a tree: Integrating and decentralizing Urban Infrastructure systems:
Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 2016Co-Authors: Sybil DerribleAbstract:In his original 1965 article, Christopher Alexander argued that master planned cities ultimately failed because the designs elaborated followed a tree structure as opposed to a more desirable semilattice structure present in organic cities. In this article, I argue that a similar claim can be made with Urban Infrastructure systems planning. As cities expanded and became increasingly complex in the 20th century, the responsibility to plan and design Urban Infrastructure was distributed to separate agencies that seldom communicate and coordinate with one another. In the global context to make cities more sustainable and resilient, a better integration of Infrastructure systems may hold much potential. After recalling Alexander’s main concepts, I examine how current Infrastructure systems are naturally interdependent. I then discuss the role of integration, by notably proposing an integration-decentralization matrix, with four quadrants, illustrated by using practical examples. The quadrants are current para...
Fanqi Liu - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Conceptualising modes of redistribution in public Urban Infrastructure
Urban Studies, 2020Co-Authors: Ilan Wiesel, Fanqi LiuAbstract:In this paper, we distinguish between five modes of redistribution in the allocation of funding for public Urban Infrastructure, including: the prioritisation of disadvantaged Urban areas (area-bas...
