Infrastructure Planning and Finance A Smart and Sustainable Guide

Part 1: Introducing Infrastructure  1. Infrastructure and Today’s Challenges  2. Emergence of Infrastructure in the United States  3. Social and Economic Underpinnings of the Demand for Infrastructure  4. Institutions of Infrastructure: The Providers  Part 2: Planning and Developing Infrastructure—Rules, Responsibilities, and Practices  5. The Planning and Delivery System  6. Comprehensive Planning for Infrastructure  7. Infrastructure and Facilities Planning  8. Development Rules and Infrastructure  9. Capital Improvement Plan, the Budget, and Strategic Planning  10. Life Cycle Asset Management  Part 3: Financing Infrastructure  11. Local Revenue Sources  12. Bonds and Borrowing  13. User Fees and Public Pricing  14. Exactions and Impact Fees  15. Competition and Privatization  Part 4: The Environmental Systems  16. Water Supply  17. Wastewater  18. Stormwater  19. Solid and Hazardous Waste Management  Part 5: Transportation  20. Streets and Streetscapes  21. Automobile and Mass Transit  22. Airports  23. Ports and Waterfronts  Part 6: Community Facilities  24. Public and Quasi-Public Buildings  25. Public Schools as Public Infrastructure: Schools, Community, and Land Use Planning  26. Parks, Recreation, and Open Space  Part 7: Energy and Telecommunications  27. Energy and Power  28. Telecommunications  29. Conclusion

Biography

Vicki Elmer is currently the Director of the Oregon Leadership in Sustainability (OLIS) graduate program at the University of Oregon where she teaches about sustainability and the urban environment. Before that she taught at UC/Berkeley’s Department of City and Regional Planning for ten years. Dr. Elmer was also a planning director and public works director in the City of Berkeley, and City Manager in Eugene, Oregon and was the head of research at HUD’s San Francisco office.

Elmer’s current research is on the intersection of compact urban design, water recycling and the water-energy-waste nexus. She is on the International Water Association’s Cities of the Future Committee and the Water Environmental Research Foundation’s committee on sustainable wastewater management. Her B.A. is from the University of Michigan (1964), MS: Columbia University (1970) PhD: University of California (1991).

Adam Leigland is currently the Director of Public Works for Santa Fe County, New Mexico, where he is responsible for the provision, operation, and maintenance of roads and trails, water and sewer service, solid waste management, public facilities, and parks and open space. Prior to that, he was the Deputy Director of Public Works for a NATO air base in northern Italy, a senior transportation planner at the San Francisco County (California) Transportation Authority, and a civil engineering officer in the U.S. Air Force with service all over the world. He holds a B.S in civil engineering from the University of Notre Dame, and an M.S. in civil engineering and an M.C.P. in city planning, both from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a registered professional engineer in New Mexico, California, and Arizona, and a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners.