Week 11: Infrastructure planning Flashcards
An ideal approach to minimize the effects of land transformation due to climate change
- Blue/green design
- Daylighting
What does daylighting involve
- Opening up a piped water course and returning the riparian environment to a more natural state
- Stormwater management
- Upper biodiversity
- Healthy streets goals
Why do flood-prone areas experience repeated flooding
Landscape transformation and climate change
Why is “flooding happens” a bad take
- People
- Climate context
- Infrastructure context
- Governance/management
What makes a good built environment
- Basic needs
- Spatial needs
- Social and information needs
Examples of basic needs
- Housing
- Food (markets, cafes, etc)
- Water services
- Goods/services
- Waste management
- Energy system
- Healthcare
- Telecomms services
- Safety / security
Examples of spatial needs
- Transport system
- Connectivity to other places
- Nature (green, blue)
- Climate, landscape
- Variety, choice
- Access to outdoors
- Recreation
Examples of social and information needs
- Welfare services
- Banking
- Education
- Employment opportunities
- Standard of living (outcome)
- Culture (diversity, inclusiveness)
- Entrepreneurship
- Sense of place
- Museums, art, music activities
4 components to Interdependence
- Built environments are complex social-ecological-technological systems
- The physical infrastructures and services they provide are distinct, but related to one another
- Service provision is controlled in the public sphere, via a mixture of public and private operators
- Government manages the system via policy and legislation
The process used by regional, district and city governments, developers and communities to make decisions
Planning
All council planning covers
- Land use, resource management, environmental stewardship
- Economic development, community development and charcter
- Infrastructure development and interconnections
- Infrastructure services and access
- Risk mitigation and management sustainability/resilience
Planning is guided by
Central and regional policy statements, regional/district plans, land use zoning, environmental impact assessments, and other drivers
Primary infrastructure performance objectives
- Sustainability
- Resilience
- Efficiency
Primary infrastructure categories
Transport, Energy, Water services, Waste, Housing, Telecomms, Green/blue space
Secondary infrastructure categories
Health care, Education, Nutrition, Culture, Welfare, Wellbeing, Security, Opportunity
Secondary infrastructure outcome objectives
Quality of life, Attractiveness, Competitiveness
Dependent and interdependent networks leads to
Physical infrastructure
Physical infrastructure examples
Roads, tracks, terminals, cables, pipes, nodes, towers, reservoirs, green space, buildings
Physical infrastructure leads to
Infrastructure services
Infrastructure services examples
Transit, trucks, cars, energy(electricity, heating, vehicles), water, waste, comms, environment
Infrastructure services leads to
Benefits to people
Why do towns and cities need planning
- Land is a finite resource subject to completing demands
- Towns and cities need plans for how to manage
- In order to support: quality of life, well being, opportunity, identity, culture now and in the future
The three dimensions of infrastructure development
Economic, Social, Environmental
Pros of social, environmental and economic dimensions on infrastructure management
On society: access, inclusion, jobs, waste management, green infrastructure
On Environment: Clean energy, waste management, green infrastructure
Cons of social, environmental and economic dimensions on infrastructure management
On society: exclusion, inequity
On environment: pollutants, land use, noise, emissions
Interoperability
Data infrastructure
Public policy perspective
- Systems should maximise provision of public services
- Public enterprises or contracts for transit, water, energy, health, recreation facilities
- Accessibility, quality, affordability, equity
Public economy perspective
Customers pay, so services should recover costs or be profitable
Subsidies
“Market failures” services that cannot be profitable
Market power
Physical infrastructure is monopolistic: fair competition requires unbundling two layers
How is competition managed for public benefit
Market power and monopolies (duopolies, retailer and provider working cooperatively)
Infrastructure is planned, operated and maintained in the context of
Diverse groups of stakeholders
Planning is about looking forward toward better
- Public health
- Transport
- Housing
- Public realm
- Opportunity
- Social equity
- Public participation
- Environmental sustainability
- Within constraints
Planning better public health includes
3 waters, waste management, green spaces, clean air, hospitals
Planning better transport includes
Safe streets, efficient access and flow, resilient
Planning better housing includes
Appropriate, affordable
Planning better public realm
Accessible, safe, inclusive, varied, (form, function, feeling)
Planning better opportunity
Participation in the economy, education, culture, risk management
Planning better social equity
Well being, inclusion, intergenerational, access to public institutions
Planning better public participation
Engagement and representation in processes and places
Planning better environmental sustainability
Stewardship, mitigation and adaptation, resilience
Planning within restraints include
Social, technological, ecological, financial, political
