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Week 11: Infrastructure planning Flashcards

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An ideal approach to minimize the effects of land transformation due to climate change

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  1. Blue/green design
  2. Daylighting
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What does daylighting involve

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  1. Opening up a piped water course and returning the riparian environment to a more natural state
  2. Stormwater management
  3. Upper biodiversity
  4. Healthy streets goals
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Why do flood-prone areas experience repeated flooding

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Landscape transformation and climate change

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Why is “flooding happens” a bad take

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  1. People
  2. Climate context
  3. Infrastructure context
  4. Governance/management
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What makes a good built environment

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  1. Basic needs
  2. Spatial needs
  3. Social and information needs
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Examples of basic needs

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  1. Housing
  2. Food (markets, cafes, etc)
  3. Water services
  4. Goods/services
  5. Waste management
  6. Energy system
  7. Healthcare
  8. Telecomms services
  9. Safety / security
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Examples of spatial needs

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  1. Transport system
  2. Connectivity to other places
  3. Nature (green, blue)
  4. Climate, landscape
  5. Variety, choice
  6. Access to outdoors
  7. Recreation
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Examples of social and information needs

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  1. Welfare services
  2. Banking
  3. Education
  4. Employment opportunities
  5. Standard of living (outcome)
  6. Culture (diversity, inclusiveness)
  7. Entrepreneurship
  8. Sense of place
  9. Museums, art, music activities
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4 components to Interdependence

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  1. Built environments are complex social-ecological-technological systems
  2. The physical infrastructures and services they provide are distinct, but related to one another
  3. Service provision is controlled in the public sphere, via a mixture of public and private operators
  4. Government manages the system via policy and legislation
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The process used by regional, district and city governments, developers and communities to make decisions

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Planning

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All council planning covers

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  1. Land use, resource management, environmental stewardship
  2. Economic development, community development and charcter
  3. Infrastructure development and interconnections
  4. Infrastructure services and access
  5. Risk mitigation and management sustainability/resilience
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Planning is guided by

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Central and regional policy statements, regional/district plans, land use zoning, environmental impact assessments, and other drivers

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Primary infrastructure performance objectives

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  1. Sustainability
  2. Resilience
  3. Efficiency
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Primary infrastructure categories

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Transport, Energy, Water services, Waste, Housing, Telecomms, Green/blue space

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Secondary infrastructure categories

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Health care, Education, Nutrition, Culture, Welfare, Wellbeing, Security, Opportunity

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Secondary infrastructure outcome objectives

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Quality of life, Attractiveness, Competitiveness

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Dependent and interdependent networks leads to

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Physical infrastructure

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Physical infrastructure examples

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Roads, tracks, terminals, cables, pipes, nodes, towers, reservoirs, green space, buildings

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Physical infrastructure leads to

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Infrastructure services

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Infrastructure services examples

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Transit, trucks, cars, energy(electricity, heating, vehicles), water, waste, comms, environment

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Infrastructure services leads to

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Benefits to people

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Why do towns and cities need planning

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  1. Land is a finite resource subject to completing demands
  2. Towns and cities need plans for how to manage
  3. In order to support: quality of life, well being, opportunity, identity, culture now and in the future
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The three dimensions of infrastructure development

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Economic, Social, Environmental

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Pros of social, environmental and economic dimensions on infrastructure management

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On society: access, inclusion, jobs, waste management, green infrastructure
On Environment: Clean energy, waste management, green infrastructure

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Cons of social, environmental and economic dimensions on infrastructure management

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On society: exclusion, inequity
On environment: pollutants, land use, noise, emissions

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Interoperability

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Data infrastructure

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Public policy perspective

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  1. Systems should maximise provision of public services
  2. Public enterprises or contracts for transit, water, energy, health, recreation facilities
  3. Accessibility, quality, affordability, equity
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Public economy perspective

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Customers pay, so services should recover costs or be profitable

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Subsidies

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“Market failures” services that cannot be profitable

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Market power

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Physical infrastructure is monopolistic: fair competition requires unbundling two layers

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How is competition managed for public benefit

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Market power and monopolies (duopolies, retailer and provider working cooperatively)

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Infrastructure is planned, operated and maintained in the context of

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Diverse groups of stakeholders

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Planning is about looking forward toward better

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  1. Public health
  2. Transport
  3. Housing
  4. Public realm
  5. Opportunity
  6. Social equity
  7. Public participation
  8. Environmental sustainability
  9. Within constraints
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Planning better public health includes

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3 waters, waste management, green spaces, clean air, hospitals

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Planning better transport includes

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Safe streets, efficient access and flow, resilient

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Planning better housing includes

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Appropriate, affordable

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Planning better public realm

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Accessible, safe, inclusive, varied, (form, function, feeling)

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Planning better opportunity

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Participation in the economy, education, culture, risk management

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Planning better social equity

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Well being, inclusion, intergenerational, access to public institutions

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Planning better public participation

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Engagement and representation in processes and places

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Planning better environmental sustainability

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Stewardship, mitigation and adaptation, resilience

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Planning within restraints include

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Social, technological, ecological, financial, political

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