ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with infrastructure. It focuses particularly on transport and mobility issues, as these are more closely linked with planning practice. Infrastructure can have broad and narrow definitions. In a planning context, some definitions encompass what is often termed social infrastructure, including things like hospitals and schools. Infrastructure can be defined as the physical assets that underpin and constitute the networks for transport, energy generation and distribution, electronic communications, solid waste management, water distribution and waste water treatment. The focus in this chapter is on this latter definition, on forms of networked infrastructure, examples of which are set out in Table 12.1.
