ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|17 pages
Sustainability, Infrastructure, and Cities
chapter Chapter 1|8 pages
the Zofnass Program for Sustainable Infrastructure
chapter Chapter 2|7 pages
Planning Infrastructure
part 2|259 pages
Sustainable Infrastructure Planning Guidelines
chapter Chapter 3|10 pages
General Framework
chapter Chapter 4|42 pages
Landscape as Infrastructure
chapter Chapter 5|33 pages
Transportation Infrastructure
chapter Chapter 6|36 pages
Water Infrastructure
chapter Chapter 7|38 pages
Energy Infrastructure
chapter Chapter 8|38 pages
Solid Waste Infrastructure
chapter Chaptper 9|32 pages
Information as Infrastructure
chapter Chapter 10|27 pages
Food as Infrastructure
part 3|57 pages
Examples of Planning with the Guidelines