Description
Book SynopsisPlanning 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 in
Table of Contents
Part 1. Sustainability, Infrastructure and Cities
1. The Zofnass Program for Sustainable Infrastructure
2. Planning Infrastructure
Part 2. Sustainable Infrastructure Planning Guidelines
3. General Framework
4. Landscape as Infrastructure
5. Transportation Infrastructure
6. Water Infrastructure
7. Energy Infrastructure
8. Solid Waste Infrastructure
9. Information as Infrastructure
10. Food as Infrastructure
Part 3. Examples of Planning with the Guidelines
11. New City in Asia
12. City Expansion in Europe
