An Infrastructure Potential Cost Model for Integrated Land Use and Infrastructure Planning

Biermann, Sharon

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“…Using the model, 27 base cost maps were generated for the study area, comprising nine cost components (5 water, 3 sanitation and 1 electricity), each for three alternative density scenarios (low, medium and high). An additional four cost maps were generated in the form of composite overlays-one each for water, electricity and sanitationand a final composite overlay which included all three services (Biermann, 1999a). In this chapter, only some of these cost maps are used to illustrate the argument.…”

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“…The bulk infrastructure potential cost model was developed in order to provide a tool for planners to incorporate bulk infrastructure cost considerations into the early land suitability assessment phase of the integrated development planning process (Biermann, 1999a). Although the model was specifically developed to assist in generating more cost-effective spatial options, it is essentially evaluative in nature and evaluates various density options, and it provides some evidence regarding the cost effectiveness of various urban forms .…”

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“…Investment units can be in the form of metres of conduit or the number of facility modules. Base cost per investment unit is influenced by additional cost factors relating to local environmental conditions (geology, soil type and characteristics, slope and environmental sensitivity) and current land-use conditions (type and intensity) (Biermann and Whisken, 1998;Biermann, 1999a).…”

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Mike Jenks developing countries. It is hoped that this volume will go some way towards filling that gap, presenting policies and local and strategic issues, and suggesting the extent to which there is commitment to, and success in achieving, sustainable urban forms in the developing world. World cities, world problems? The last decade has been remarkable for the vast array of literature, and intensity of debate, about cities and their global impact. Problems of sustainability, stemming from Brundtland (WCED, 1987) and the Rio Earth Summit (UNCED, 1992), have concentrated the minds of governments and research organisations around the world. Cities have been seen as the cause of environmental degradation and resource depletion, casting an ecological footprint across the globe, far beyond their immediate regions (e.g. Girardet, 1996; Wackernagel et al., 1997). More often than not, cities are seen as problematic-congested, polluting, with poor housing, collapsing infrastructure, crime and poverty. Yet it is cities that drive economies and it is within them that innovation occurs and an increasing part of global output is produced. Soon, over half the world's population will live in cities, the majority in the developing countries. Over the past five years the world has seen a 2.5% growth in urbanisation, but that varies between the more developed regions (0.7%) and the less developed regions where the growth has been 3.3% (UNFPA, 1999). In 1999, 47%, or 2.8 billion, of the world's population lived in cities, and this is set to increase by around 60 million people each year. The expectation is that by 2030 'nearly 5 billion (61 per cent) of the world's 8.1 billion people will live in cities' (UNFPA, 2000, p.25). Of the urban population, for every one person now living in cities in developed countries, there are two in the cities of the developing world. Within 30 years this proportion is predicted to rise to 1:4, indicating that 90% of the growth in urbanisation will be in developing countries. In these countries the expansion of urbanisation is occurring on an unimaginable scale. Very large cities-the megacities with populations of over 10 million people-are becoming commonplace. New York and Tokyo were the only megacities in 1960, but by 1999 there were 17. In another 15 years projections suggest there will be at least 26 such cities, 22 of which will be in developing countries, and 18 of these in Asia (UNFPA, 1999). However, the most aggressive growth appears to be in the cities of between 1 and 10 million. From the 270 'million cities' in 1990, by 2015, various predictions show, there may be between 358 to 516 of these cities (UNCHS cited in Hall and Pfeiffer, 2000; WRI, 1996). It is questionable whether these statistics necessarily represent a problem. The very size of the cities and the high proportion of the world's population living within them will inevitably concentrate problems. These will include the intensive use of resources such as land, water and energy, the overstretching of infrastructure, poor sanit...

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Bulk Engineering Services: Costs and Densities

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“…Unit costs are assumed to increase as coverage rates increase based on the assumption that the marginal cost of reaching an additional unit (e.g., household, hectare of land, etc.) increases as coverage rates increase (Biermann, 1998;Collier, et al, 2015). The parameter m e is the share of spending on extension services devoted to maintaining the skills of already covered farm households, while m i and m r are the shares of irrigation and road spending, respectively, devoted to repairing and maintaining existing infrastructure.…”

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The role of planning support systems (PSS) in planning practice is still quite restricted, despite explosive growth in the supply of PSS and increased demand from planning practice as a result of the growing complexity of planning tasks. Research in this area must become more focused if this unsatisfactory situation is to be overcome. This can be achieved by developing a coherent research agenda in which the constituting research elements work together in order to rectify the situation as it stands. This paper employs a structured methodology with the aim of realising the start of a PSS research agenda. A number of recommendations for future PSS research can be derived from this tentative agenda. The key recommendation calls for shifting the prime focus from PSS instruments (means) to their support role (goal). When this is achieved, a new and innovative field of study can be established: planning support science.

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An Infrastructure Potential Cost Model for Integrated Land Use and Infrastructure Planning

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Bulk Engineering Services: Costs and Densities

Bulk Engineering Services: Costs and Densities

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