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The Financialization of Urban Infrastructure
2023Abstract - The chapter is one of the most important passages of the book. Without financialization, even the full concept of urban infrastructure as it is treated in the volume would not be possible. Financialization is a central point in understanding the specificity of urban infrastructure and the potential for growth and transformation that the ...
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Management of Urban Drainage Infrastructure
2022This chapter briefly presents concepts and methodologies to support the management of urban drainage infrastructure. After the introduction, data requirements for assessing the condition of urban drainage systems are presented. Data can be collected in different ways.
Carriço, Nelson +2 more
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Urban Environment and Infrastructure [PDF]
, 2004 This review of the active portfolio of World Bank projects aimed at improving urban environmental quality was carried out during 2002-03 in order to assess the level of commitment of the institution to urban sustainability. The review focuses on the contributions of key sectors to urban environmental improvements, in particular on those belonging to ...
Anthony G. Bigio, Bharat Dahiya
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Urban Landscapes and Green Infrastructure
2017Abstract Urban green infrastructure (GI) has been promoted as an approach to respond to major urban environmental and social challenges such as reducing the ecological footprint, improving human health and well-being, and adapting to climate change. Various definitions of GI have been proposed since its emergence more than two decades
Stephan Pauleit +8 more
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Urbanization and Infrastructure
2020How fast has China urbanized? Mass migration from country to city is a phenomenon that every country experiences as it industrializes. China is no exception to this rule but has done it faster and on a far larger scale than most other nations.
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2018
The infrastructure of the medieval city comprised roads, bridges, waterways, and their associated structures. This chapter argues that archaeology, in conjunction with the study of historical and pictorial evidence, can shed important insights into the construction, modification, and development of streets, waterfronts, rivers, bridges, and perceptions
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The infrastructure of the medieval city comprised roads, bridges, waterways, and their associated structures. This chapter argues that archaeology, in conjunction with the study of historical and pictorial evidence, can shed important insights into the construction, modification, and development of streets, waterfronts, rivers, bridges, and perceptions
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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, 2016In 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.
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Ubiquitous city: Urban technologies, urban infrastructure and urban informatics
Journal of Information Science, 2009South Korea continues to lead the way in digital opportunity with its recent, innovative and ubiquitous city projects. The u-city initiative in South Korea is a national urban development project that focuses on strengthening the role of information and communication technologies in civic planning and management. This study tracks the changing dynamics
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2020
Cities are shaped by transportation infrastructure. Older cities were anchored by waterways. Nineteenth century cities followed the path of streetcars and subways. The 20th century city rebuilt itself around the car. The close connection between transportation and urban form is natural, since cities are defined by their density.
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Cities are shaped by transportation infrastructure. Older cities were anchored by waterways. Nineteenth century cities followed the path of streetcars and subways. The 20th century city rebuilt itself around the car. The close connection between transportation and urban form is natural, since cities are defined by their density.
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The Urban Communication Infrastructure
2011Does Wi-Fi, the Internet, the mobile phone, satellite communication, the I-Pod, flat screen television, wireless devices, Skype, Face Book, Twitter, virtual communities, laptops, Kindle, alter a sense of place and attachment? This area of exploration is absent not only in the areas of urban planning and design, but also other types of places such as ...
Susan Drucker, Gary Gumpert
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