Critical Urban Infrastructure

Urban Analytics Data Infrastructure: Critical Sdi for Urban Management in Australia

Spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) are fundamental to enabling informed decisionmaking across a variety of industries and sectors but has primary relevance for managing land and land-related resources. Given the primacy of cities in meeting future sustainable development goals, SDIs are increasingly prominent in supporting the identification and management of urban-related issues such as water...

Urban Infrastructure and Morphosis

Financing Green Urban Infrastructure

This paper presents an overview of practices and challenges related to financing green sustainable cities. Cities are essential actors in stimulating green infrastructure; and urban finance is one of the promising ways in which this can be achieved. Cities are key investors in infrastructure with green potential, such as buildings, transport, water and waste. Their main revenue sources, such as...

Urban Infrastructure and Industrialization1

Public infrastructure in Third World cities is generally in a fairly poor condition. The quality of infrastructure services is further eroded by the rapid population growth in most of these cities. Poor infrastructure reduces the profitability of modern sector manufacturing and may therefore inhibit industrialization. The present analysis demonstrates that there may arise situations with stable...

Defending Critical Infrastructure

We apply new bilevel and trilevel optimization models to make critical infrastructure more resilient against terrorist attacks. Each model features an intelligent attacker (terrorists) and a defender (us), information transparency, and sequential actions by attacker and defender. We illustrate with examples of the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the US Border Patrol at Yuma, Arizona, and an ele...