1st Edition

Planning Sustainable Cities An infrastructure-based approach

By Spiro Pollalis Copyright 2016
    364 Pages
    by Routledge

    364 Pages
    by Routledge

    Planning Sustainable Cities: An infrastructure-based approach provides an analytical framework for urban sustainability, focusing on the services and performance of infrastructure systems.





    The book approaches infrastructure as a series of systems that function in synergy and are directly linked with urban planning. This method streamlines and guides the planning process, while still highlighting detail, each infrastructure system is decoded in four "system levels". The levels organize the processes, highlight connections between entities and decode the high-level planning and decision making process affecting infrastructure. For each system level strategic objectives of planning are determined. The objectives correspond to the five focus areas of the Zofnass program: Quality of life, Natural World, Climate and Risk, Resource Allocation, Leadership. Developed through the Zofnass Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, this approach integrates the key infrastructure systems of Energy, Landscape, Transportation, Waste, Water, Information and Food and explores their synergies through land use planning, engineering, economics and policy.





    The size and complexity of infrastructure systems means that multiple stakeholders facing their own challenges and agendas are involved in planning; this book creates a common, collaborative platform between public authorities, planners, and engineers. It is an essential resource for those seeking Envision Sustainability Professionals accreditation.

    Part 1. Sustainability, Infrastructure and Cities



    1. The Zofnass Program for Sustainable Infrastructure



    2. Planning Infrastructure



    Part 2. Sustainable Infrastructure Planning Guidelines



    3. General Framework



    4. Landscape as Infrastructure



    5. Transportation Infrastructure



    6. Water Infrastructure



    7. Energy Infrastructure



    8. Solid Waste Infrastructure



    9. Information as Infrastructure



    10. Food as Infrastructure



    Part 3. Examples of Planning with the Guidelines



    11. New City in Asia



    12. City Expansion in Europe

    Biography

    Professor Pollalis is Professor of Design, Technology and Management at the Harvard Design School. He is the Director of the Zofnass Program for the Sustainability of Infrastructure that led to the Envision Rating System. He is the Principal Investigator of the project "Gulf Sustainable Urbanism" for 10 cities in the Arab Gulf, and the chief planner for the new DHA City Karachi.