Title: Infrastructure Planning and Finance: A Smart and Sustainable Guide
Abstract: The book provides both step-by-step guidelines and a broad overview of the technical, political, and economic challenges of creating lasting infrastructure for the 21st Century. The purpose of the book is to be a non-technical guide to the engineering, planning, and financing of major infrastructure projects in the United States. The book is for use by 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 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. The chapters of the book include information on water, wastewater, solid waste, streets, transportation, airports, ports, community facilities, parks, schools, energy and telecommunications. The book describes innovations such as decentralization, green and blue-green technologies as well as local policy actions for the use of achieving a more sustainable city. Attention is given as to how local policies can ensure a sustainable and climate friendly infrastructure system as well as how planning for them can be integrated across many disciplines. A team of authors with experience in public works, planning, and city government explain the history and economic environment of infrastructure and capital planning by addressing common tools such as the comprehensive plan, sustainability plans, and local regulations.
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-10-25
Language: en
Type: book
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