Urban infrastructure for development

Urban Infrastructure Development and Sustainability in Nigeria

Infrastructure Ecology: An Evolving Paradigm for Sustainable Urban Development

Increasing urbanization places cities at the forefront of achieving global sustainability. For cities to become more sustainable, however, the infrastructure on which they rely must also become more productive, efficient and resilient. Unfortunately the current paradigm of urban infrastructure development is fragmented in approach lacking a systems perspective. Urban infrastructure systems are ...

reThinKing susTainabiliTy: susTainable urban and infrasTruCTure developmenT introduction

In the foreword the Sustainable Urban and Regional Infrastructure Development: Technologies, Applications and Management,1 Kevin O’Connor points out that, in the 21st Century, ‘urban and infrastructure sustainability’ has become a very prominent element in the day-to-day debate on urban policy and the expression of that policy in urban planning and development decisions. While the origins of th...

urban green infrastructure assessment for their regeneration in tehran landscape

introduction “green infrastructure” is a term that describes the abundance and distribution of natural features providing ecological services necessary for community wellbeing specially in urban areas where these are limited. green infrastructure is increasingly espoused by landscape conservation and metropolitan planning because it is an effective way to surrogate ecological network functions ...

Urban Infrastructure and Morphosis