[ePub] Belfast Girls by Jaki McCarrick at Arts-Photography

Description

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.