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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.
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9781315642352, 9780367669959, 9781317282761, 9781317282747
Planning Sustainable Cities: An infrastructure-based approach 1st Edition is written by Spiro Pollalis and published by Routledge. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Planning Sustainable Cities are 9781317282754, 1317282752 and the print ISBNs are 9781138188426, 1138188425. Additional ISBNs for this eTextbook include 9781315642352, 9780367669959, 9781317282761, 9781317282747.
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