Perspectives On Urban Infrastructure

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309034396
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Urban Infrastructure written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1984-02-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative volume, distinguished authorities on urban policy expose the myths surrounding today's "infrastructure crisis" in urban public works. Five in-depth papers examine the evolution of the public works system, the limitations of urban needs studies, the financing of public works projects, the impact of politics, and how technology is affecting the types of infrastructures needed for tomorrow's cities.

Author : Royce Hanson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780608023465
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Urban Infrastructure written by Royce Hanson and published by . This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pierre Filion
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487531230
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Suburban Infrastructures written by Pierre Filion and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-05-06 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most new urban growth takes place in the suburbs; consequently, infrastructures are in a constant state of playing catch-up, creating repeated infrastructure crises in these peripheries. However, the push to address the tensions stemming from this rapid growth also allow the suburbs to be a major source of urban innovation. Taking a critical social science perspective to identify political, economic, social, and environmental issues related to suburban infrastructures, this book highlights the similarities and differences between suburban infrastructure conditions encountered in the Global North and Global South. Adopting an international approach grounded in case studies from three continents, this book discusses infrastructure issues within different suburban and societal contexts: low-density infrastructure-rich Global North suburban areas, rapidly developing Chinese suburbs, and the deeply socially stratified suburbs of poor Global South countries. Despite stark differences between types of suburbs, there are features common to all suburban areas irrespective of their location, and similarities in the infrastructure issues confronting these different categories of suburbs.

Author : Tauri Tuvikene
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351190334
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Post-Socialist Urban Infrastructures (OPEN ACCESS) written by Tauri Tuvikene and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-Socialist Urban Infrastructures critically elaborates on often forgotten, but some of the most essential, aspects of contemporary urban life, namely infrastructures, and links them to a discussion of post-socialist transformation. As the skeletons of cities, infrastructures capture the ways in which urban environments are assembled and urban lives unfold. Focusing on post-socialist cities, marked by neoliberalisation, polarisation and hybridity, this book offers new and enriching perspectives on urban infrastructures by centering on the often marginalised aspects of urban research—transport, green spaces, and water and heating provision. Featuring cases from West and East alike, the book covers examples from Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Germany, Russia, Georgia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Tajikistan, and India. It provides original insights into the infrastructural back end of post-socialist cities for scholars, planners and activists interested in urban geography, cultural and social anthropology, and urban studies.

Author : Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781558444188
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Infrastructure Economics and Policy written by Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez and published by . This book was released on 2021-12 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comparison of infrastructure across countries and sectors, leading international academics and practitioners consider the latest approaches to infrastructure policy, implementation, and finance. The book presents evidence-based solutions and policy considerations, essential concepts and economic theories, and a current overview.

Author : Ramanath Jha
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789381891018
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perspectives in Urban Development written by Ramanath Jha and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jonathan Rutherford
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783030178864
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Redeploying Urban Infrastructure written by Jonathan Rutherford and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores urban futures in the making, as seen through the lens of urban infrastructure. The book describes how socio-technical arrangements of energy and water provision are being recast in continuing efforts towards realising ‘sustainable’ transformation of cities. It critically investigates how infrastructure comes to matter by analyzing the shifting capacities and entanglements of diverse actors with these systems, the various means they use to envision, enact and contest changes, and the wide-ranging social and political implications of emerging infrastructure transitions. Drawing on original research into urban infrastructure debates and projects in Stockholm and Paris, the author develops a novel conceptual framework for studying and acknowledging the active, vital role of infrastructure in constituting a material politics of urban transformation. Straddling the latest theoretical insights and empirical investigation of urban planning practice and socio-technical engineering of systems and flows, Redeploying Urban Infrastructure forges new, timely reflections and perspectives which will be of interest to the growing multidisciplinary community of scholars investigating infrastructure and to academics and practitioners with a concern for understanding the wider politics of urban futures.

Author : Joseph Heathcott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000528634
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Infrastructure Design written by Joseph Heathcott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Infrastructure Design explores the multifaceted nature of infrastructure through the global lens of architectural history. Infrastructure holds the world together. Yet even as it connects some people, it divides others, sorting access and connectivity through varied social categories such as class, race, gender, and citizenship. This collection examines themes across broad spans of time, raises questions of linkage and scale, investigates infrastructure as phenomenon and affect, and traces the interrelation of aesthetics, technology, and power. With a diverse range of contributions from 33 scholars, this volume presents new research from regions including South and East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, South America, North America, Western Europe, the Middle East, and the former Soviet Union. This extraordinary group of authors bring close attention to the materials, functions, and aesthetics of infrastructure systems as these unfold within their cultural and political contexts. They provide not only new knowledge of specific artifacts, such as the Valens Aqueduct, the Hong Kong waterfront, and the Pan-American Highway, but also new ways of conceptualizing, studying, and understanding infrastructure as a worlding process. The Routledge Handbook of Infrastructure Design provides richly textured, thoroughly evidenced, and imaginatively drawn arguments that deepen our understanding of the role of infrastructure in creating the world in which we live. It is a must-read for academics and students.

Author : Finger, Matthias
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800375611
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elgar Companion to Urban Infrastructure Governance written by Finger, Matthias and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-22 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive overview of the governance of urban infrastructures, this Companion combines illustrative cases with conceptual approaches to offer an innovative perspective on the governance of large urban infrastructure systems. Chapters examine the challenges facing urban infrastructure systems, including financial, economic, technological, social, ecological, jurisdictional and demand.

Author : Stephen Graham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131768639X
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Infrastructural Lives written by Stephen Graham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infrastructural Lives is the first book to describe the everyday experience and politics of urban infrastructures. It focuses on a range of infrastructures in both the global South and North. The book examines how day-to-day experience and perception of infrastructure provides a new and powerful lens to view urban sustainability, politics, economics, cultures and ecologies. An interdisciplinary group of leading and emerging urban researchers examine critical questions about urban infrastructure in different global contexts. The chapters address water, sanitation, and waste politics in Mumbai, Kampala and Tyneside, analyse the use of infrastructure in the dispossession of Palestinian communities, explore the pacification of Rio’s favelas in the run-up to the 2014 World Cup, describe how people’s bodies and lives effectively operate as ‘infrastructure’ in many major cities, and also explores tentative experiments with low-carbon infrastructures. These diverse cases and perspectives are connected by a shared sense of infrastructure not just as a ‘thing’, a ‘system’, or an ‘output,’ but as a complex social and technological process that enables – or disables – particular kinds of action in the city. Infrastructural Lives is crucial reading for academics, researchers, students and practitioners in urban studies globally.