Foresight of modern urban infrastructure

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...

A Modern Knowledge Infrastructure: Properties and Capabilities

A modern knowledge infrastructure has specific technological properties that enable organizations to function with far greater efficacy. It is digital, modular, mobile, reliable, global, unified, accessible, update-able, fast, and interactive. These ten properties of a modern knowledge infrastructure in turn enhance the capabilities of the knowledge management system. The strengthened capabilit...

Infrastructure Asset Management of Urban Water Systems

IAM methods partially differ from those applicable to managing other types of assets. One of the reasons is the fact that such infrastructures have indefinite lives, in order to satisfy the permanent needs of a specific public service. Infrastructures are not replaceable as a whole, only piecemeal. Consequently, in a mature infrastructure, all phases of assets lifetime coex‐ ist. Additionally, ...