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Cities are shaped by transportation infrastructure. Older cities were anchored by waterways. Nineteenth century cities … value of investing in transportation infrastructure. Future transportation innovations, including autonomous vehicles and …
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relative effects of physical and social infrastructure on living standards or poverty indicators are examined, with a view to … providing empirical evidence on the implications of increased urban infrastructure for the urban poor. The paper employs … though infrastructure in general reduces poverty, social infrastructure explains a higher proportion of the forecast error in …
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Contents: 1. Who owns, runs and pays for city infrastructure? -- 2. Financialising city infrastructure and governance … -- 3. Towards city statecraft -- 4. City infrastructure provision and geographical inequalities in the UK's centralised …, owning, and acquiring city infrastructure assets -- 7. Fixing urban infrastructure in the London global city …
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This paper analyses the degree to which infrastructure reliability and urban economic activity in several African … affected by floods. It further details how transport infrastructure is subjected to significant flood risk that … of natural hazards on urban infrastructure networks …
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Urban green infrastructure planning should be based on certain principles for addressing a variety of challenges … urban green infrastructure planning research is often carried out in highly developed countries, while relatively little is …. Therefore, this study attempts to evaluate the integration of urban green infrastructure planning principles in the current …
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challenges are ineffective. This study assesses the applicability of "smart infrastructure" to achieve sustainable urban … characteristics of the residents and assess the infrastructure, the building uses and the environmental conditions of the study areas … in relation to smart principles and smart infrastructure application in the study areas. The data were analyzed using …
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, construction, and operation of a city infrastructure can now utilize a suite of technologies and processes to assist this … different vintages of infrastructure and technology must be combined. This paper is based on case studies of IBM and the …
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