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Book SynopsisMegaprojects for Megacities is a collection of 14 international case studies of transportation, urban development, and environmental megaprojects completed during the last ten years in North America, Asia and Europe. It goes beyond the previous megaproject literature to look at how and why each project was conceived, planned, engineered, financed, and delivered, and how particular planning and delivery practices shaped successful and unsuccessful outcomes.
With individual chapters on high-speed rail, urban metro systems, bus rapid transit, roadway tunnels and bridges, new and improved airports, waterfront redevelopment projects, new towns, urban parks and renewable energy projects, this book is unparalleled in its coverage, depth and takeaways for practice. It incorporates current examples from across the world, including North America, Asia, the UK, and Europe.
This collection of case studies is presented in an approachable way that will prove valuable to academics, researchers and students as well as practicing professionals, financiers and senior government officials interested in infrastructure planning, financing, project management and delivery.
Table of ContentsContents: Preface xi John D. Landis 1 The megaproject challenge 1 John D. Landis 2 Megaproject milestones 40 John D. Landis 3 Choosing the case study megaprojects 114 John D. Landis 4 Unfinished business—London Crossrail 133 John D. Landis 5 China bends the curve on high-speed rail 167 Ziming Liu and John D. Landis 6 China’s metro explosion: lessons from China’s big four cities 192 Zhong-Ren Peng, Kaifa Lu, Mengyi Jin, Xinghang Zhu and John D. Landis 7 Bus Rapid Transit—the affordable transit megaproject alternative 237 Erik Vergel-Tovar and John D. Landis 8 A tunnel beneath Seattle: the megaproject to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct 276 Molly Riddle and Jan Whittington 9 A bridge too far? The Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge and economic and regional restructuring in China’s Pearl River Delta region 307 Anthony G.O. Yeh, Fang Bian and Jiangping Zhou 10 Singapore’s Jewel Changi Airport—always raising the bar 326 John D. Landis 11 Epic fail and cautious success—Berlin Brandenburg Airport and New York LaGuardia Terminal B 349 John D. Landis 12 Canary Wharf’s transformation from ‘planning disaster’ to London’s second business district 383 David Gordon and Patricia Warren 13 Urban regeneration meets sustainability—HafenCity, Hamburg 408 John D. Landis 14 A case of hubris—Songdo International Business District 431 John D. Landis 15 Who is in charge here? Brooklyn Bridge Park 456 John D. Landis Oscar Serpell and John D. Landis 16 Powering the future—five clean energy megaprojects Oscar Serpell and John D. Landis 479 17 Improving megaproject practice and performance 506 John D. Landis Index
