Planning Sustainable Cities: An infrastructure-based approach

Planning Sustainable Cities: An infrastructure-based approach provides an analytical framework for urban sustainability, focusing on the services and performance of infrastructure systems. The size and complexity of infrastructure systems means that multiple stakeholders facing their own challenges and agendas are involved in planning; this book creates a common, collaborative platform between public authorities, planners, and engineers. It is an essential resource for those seeking Envision Sustainability Professionals accreditation.. Developed through the Zofnass Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, this approach integrates the key infrastructure systems of Energy, Landscape, Transportation, Waste, Water, Information and Food and explores their synergies through land use planning, engineering, economics and policy. The levels organize the processes, highlight connections between entities and decode the high-level planning and decision making process affecting infrastructure. The book approaches infrastructure as a series of systems that function in synergy and are directly linked with urban planning. The objectives correspond to the five focus areas of the Zofnass program: Quality of life, Natural World, Climate and Risk, Resource Allocation, Leadership. This method streamlines and guides the planning process, while still highligh

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He is the Director of the Zofnass Program for the Sustainability of Infrastructure that led to the Envision Rating System. About the AuthorProfessor Pollalis is Professor of Design, Technology and Management at the Harvard Design School. He is the Principal Investigator of the project "Gulf Sustainable Urbanism" for 10 cities in the Arab Gulf, and the chief planner for the new DHA City Karachi.

He is the Principal Investigator of the project "Gulf Sustainable Urbanism" for 10 cities in the Arab Gulf, and the chief planner for the new DHA City Karachi.. He is the Director of the Zofnass Program for the Sustainability of Infrastructure that led to the Envision Rating System. Professor Pollalis is Professor of Design, Technology and Management at the Harvard Design School