Infrastructure Planning and Management: An Integrated Approach

Infrastructure Planning and Management: An Integrated Approach
Author: Virendra Proag
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 701
Release: 2020-11-05
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030485595

This book explains how water, electricity/power, roads and other infrastructure services are linked together within the general basket of development and how to obtain the optimum use of resources. The emphasis, nowadays, is on multipurpose activities, optimum use of resources, environmental approach, minimum use of energy. This book tries to integrate all of these, by showing the links between the different components of infrastructure and trying to model them. A well articulated, socially attractive and desirable project may fail during the implementation or operation stage, not only from bad design, but also due to inadequate attention paid to the human aspects required for its operation. This book is intended for graduates and practising professionals who are involved in the general development planning of their country/region. It enables better understanding, collaboration and communication with other professionals in relation to their own or different disciplines.

City and Transportation Planning

City and Transportation Planning
Author: Akinori Morimoto
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2021-08-10
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1000417433

Many urban and transportation problems, such as traffic congestion, traffic accidents, and environmental burdens, result from poor integration of land use and transportation. This graduate-level textbook outlines strategies for sustainably integrating land use and transportation planning, addressing the impact on land use of advanced transport like light rail transit and autonomous cars, and the emerging focus on cyber space and the role of ICT and big data in city planning. The text also explores how we can create sustainable cities for the future. In contrast to the "compact city", which has been proposed as an environmentally friendly urban model, recent years have seen an acceleration in the introduction of ICT-based "smart city". As people’s lives are drastically changed by COVID-19, a new form of city is being explored. The new concept of a "smart sharing city" is introduced as an urban model that wisely integrates physical and cyber space, and presents a way to solve future urban issues with new technologies.

Green Infrastructure Planning

Green Infrastructure Planning
Author: Ian Mell
Publisher: Concise Guides to Planning
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: City planning
ISBN: 9781848222755

This useful guide provides an essential introduction to green infrastructure for planners, landscape architects, engineers and environmentalists.

Infrastructure Planning

Infrastructure Planning
Author: James V. Parkin
Publisher: Thomas Telford
Total Pages: 262
Release: 1999-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780727727473

This book introduces engineers to the principles and procedures necessary for infrastructure planning in rapidly developing regions. It covers the technical methods required in planning for infrastructure provision from base-line studies and problem definition through to the sepcification for a set of projects. The book also discusses the political factors that affect the decision-making process and demonstrates, through case studies, how the technical and political perspectives come together in the finished plan.

Town and Infrastructure Planning for Safety and Urban Quality

Town and Infrastructure Planning for Safety and Urban Quality
Author: Michèle Pezzagno
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2018-07-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351173359

Today, citizens advocate greater environmental sustainability, better services and the improvement of urban quality by promoting safer mobility, especially for the most vulnerable road users. Addressing these issues, Town and Infrastructure Planning for Safety and Urban Quality contains papers presented at the XXIII International Conference “Living and Walking in Cities” (Brescia, Italy, 15-16 June 2017). The contributions discuss town planning issues, look at best practices and research findings across the broad spectrum of urban and transport planning, with particular attention to the safety of pedestrians in the city. The main topics of the book are: - Urban regeneration. A focus on walkability (vulnerable road users; boosting and planning soft mobility) - Road safety and urban planning - vulnerable road users: planning for safety (integrated land use and transport planning; methodological approaches and case studies; integrated tools for town and transport planning; shaping public spaces and walkability; transport solutions for tourism) - Innovative and traditional solutions for Italian cities - Extra-European approaches to town and infrastructure planning - Different perspectives in road safety: prevention, infrastructure, sharing - Advances in road safety Town and Infrastructure Planning for Safety and Urban Quality is a powerful plea for a multi-disciplinary and comprehensive approach to urban mobility and planning, and will be of interest to academics, consultants and practitioners interested in these areas.

The Future of National Infrastructure

The Future of National Infrastructure
Author: Jim W. Hall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2016-02-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107066026

This book sets out a systematic approach to making long-term choices about national infrastructure systems, for practitioners, policy-makers and academics.

Planning Sustainable Cities

Planning Sustainable Cities
Author: Un-Habitat
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 841
Release: 2016-05-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1134900783

Current urban planning systems are not equipped to deal with the major urban challenges of the twenty-first century, including effects of climate change, resource depletion and economic instability, plus continued rapid urbanization with its negative consequences such as poverty, slums and urban informality. These planning systems have also, to a large extent, failed to meaningfully involve and accommodate the ways of life of communities and other stakeholders in the planning of urban areas, thus contributing to the problems of spatial marginalization and exclusion. It is clear that urban planning needs to be reconsidered and revitalized for a sustainable urban future. Planning Sustainable Cities reviews the major challenges currently facing cities and towns all over the world, the emergence and spread of modern urban planning and the effectiveness of current approaches. More importantly, it identifies innovative urban planning approaches and practices that are more responsive to current and future challenges of urbanization. The Global Report on Human Settlements is the most authoritative and up-to-date global assessment of human settlements conditions and trends. It is an essential reference for researchers, academics, public authorities and civil society organizations all over the world. Preceding issues of the report have addressed such topics as Cities in a Globalizing World, The Challenge of Slums, Financing Urban Shelter and Enhancing Urban Safety and Security.

Planning with Landscape: Green Infrastructure to Build Climate-Adapted Cities

Planning with Landscape: Green Infrastructure to Build Climate-Adapted Cities
Author: Camila Gomes Sant'Anna
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2023-03-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3031183320

This edited volume examines how to develop a planning and design process with green infrastructure that creates technical answers to the social and ecological function of the city’s climate change adaptations demands. In this context, it proposes a process that engage the values linked to the art and culture of the place, capable of generating adoption by the population and promoting the right to landscape. Since the nineteenth century, many theoretical and practical experiences have integrated urban and environmental issues, revising the understanding of nature as an object and thinking of nature and culture in conjunction. However, consensus of the methodological strategies needed to guide the development of multi-scale landscape planning and design capable of responding to the climate emergency, heritage, water, biodiversity and social inclusion, among other issues has not been achieved. Green infrastructure has emerged as a tool to link considerations of the planning and design process to examine the impact urban nature can have at a global and a local scale. The book gathers together authors from different parts of the world and disciplines to showcase conceptual thinking, best practices and methodological strategies relating to landscape planning and design with green infrastructure adapted to climate change. The topic of this book is particularly relevant to scholars, practitioners and developers around the world who have an interest in planning and environmental management, landscape architecture, and socio-cultural understandings of landscape.