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1 online resource (xxvii, 740 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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SECTION ONE PLANNING AND FINANCING INFRASTRUCTURE: PART I: INTRODUCING INFRASTRUCTURE: 1. Infrastructure and Today's Challenges -- 2. Emergence of Infrastructure in the United States -- 3. Growth, Demand, and the Need for Infrastructure -- 4. Institutions of Infrastructure: The Providers -- PART II: PLANNING AND DEVELOPING INFRASTRUCTURE: 5. Local Plans and Infrastructure -- 6 The Infrastructure Program and its Preparation -- 7 Smart and Sustainable Development Rules -- 8 Developing the Public Infrastructure Project -- 9 Capital Improvements Plan and the Capital Budget -- 10 Managing Infrastructure -- PART III FINANCING INFRASTRUCTURE: 11 The Financial Context for Infrastructure -- 12 Bonds and Borrowing -- 13 User Fees and Public Pricing -- 14 Exactions and Impact Fees -- 15. Competition and Privatization -- SECTION TWO THE MAJOR INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS: PART IV: THE ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS: 16. Water Supply / Jeff Loux, Adam Leigland, and Vicki Elmer -- 17. Wastewater and New Paradigms -- 18. Stormwater and Flooding -- 19. Solid Waste Management -- PART V: TRANSPORTATION: 20. Streets and Streetscapes -- 21. Automobile and Mass Transit -- 22. Airports -- 23. Ports and Waterfronts / Peter H. Brown and Peter V. Hall -- PART VI: COMMUNITY FACILITIES: 24. Public and Quasi-Public Buildings -- 25. Public Schools as Public Infrastructure: Schools, Community, and Land Use Planning / Jeffrey Vincent -- 26. Parks, Recreation, and Open Space -- PART SEVEN: ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS: 27. Energy and Power -- 28. Telecommunications -- SECTIN THREE: CONCLUSION: PART VIII CONCLUSION: 29. A New Paradigm for Infrastructure |
| Summary |
"This book is designed for the local practitioner or student who wants to learn the basics of how to develop an infrastructure plan, a program, or an individual infrastructure project. The author offers an overview of infrastructure before moving to the history of infrastructure, supply and demand factors as well as the local institutional context. The relationship of infrastructure to local tools such as the comprehensive plan, the climate change or sustainability plan, and local development regulations are addressed. Chapters also cover preparation of the comprehensive plan and infrastructure and how to develop an infrastructure project. The local financing environment is described and then individual chapters address financing techniques such as bonds and borrowing, user fees, impact fees, and privatization and competition. The rest of the book describes the individual infrastructure systems: their elements, current issues and a 'how-to-do-it' section that covers the system and the comprehensive plan, development regulations and how it can be financed. Innovations such as decentralization, green and blue-green technologies are described as well as local policy actions to achieve a more sustainable city are also addressed. Chapters include water, wastewater, solid waste, streets, transportation, airports, ports, community facilities, parks, schools, energy and telecommunications. Attention is given to how local policies can ensure a sustainable and climate friendly infrastructure system, and how planning for them can be integrated across disciplines. This book provides a non-technical overview of the engineering, planning and financing aspects of local level infrastructure for planners, engineers and other local officials who need to work with specialized professionals. It also gives basic 'how-to-do-it' information along with a brief overview of the larger policy and technical issues for each field, all based on the view that twenty-first century issues of climate change, population growth, and the deteriorated state of much local infrastructure require a more integrated view of infrastructure systems than those built in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries"-- Provided by publisher |
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"Infrastructure Planning and Finance is designed for the local practitioner or student who wants to learn the basics of how to develop an infrastructure plan, a program, or an individual infrastructure project. A team of authors with experience in public works, planning, and city government explain the history and economic environment of infrastructure and capital planning, addressing common tools like the comprehensive plan, sustainability plans, and local regulations. The book guides readers through the preparation and development of comprehensive plans and infrastructure projects, and through major funding mechanisms, from bonds, user fees, and impact fees to privatization and competition"-- Provided by publisher |
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Print version record |
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Infrastructure (Economics) -- United States -- Planning
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Infrastructure (Economics) -- United States -- Finance
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City planning -- United States
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Municipal services -- United States -- Planning
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Municipal services -- United States -- Finance
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ARCHITECTURE -- Urban & Land Use Planning.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Civil -- Bridges.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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City planning
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Infrastructure (Economics) -- Finance
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Infrastructure (Economics) -- Planning
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Municipal services -- Finance
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Municipal services -- Planning
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United States
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Leigland, Adam, author.
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| ISBN |
9780203552391 |
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0203552393 |
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9781135906412 |
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1135906416 |
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9781135906559 |
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1135906556 |
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9781135906481 |
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1135906483 |
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9781306114943 |
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1306114942 |
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