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The magnitude of investment, the long time-frames involved and the influence of pre-existing infrastructure on urban infrastructure provision make a co-ordinated approach to forward-planning, policy development and implementation essential.

There are major challenges in making decisions on urban infrastructure and getting management structures and processes in place. Getting it right generates long-term dividends; getting it wrong involves major costs, often borne by taxpayers.

Urban Infrastructure: finance and management is posited on a strong belief that the physical structure of cities and the efficiency of infrastructure services delivered are driven by efficiencies within individual infrastructure sectors, lessons learnt across these sectors and the ability to co-ordinate and integrate sectors to generate economies of scale. This necessitates an interdisciplinary approach, integrating knowledge from finance, governance, planning and management as well as the characteristics of the individual urban infrastructure sectors involved. Here it is not only about getting the initial decisions and policy settings right, but also ensuring effective implementation. A major theme running through the book is the nature of institutions and the governance structures responsible for delivery and management of urban infrastructure and the decision making processes involved.

The editors have taken a deliberately pragmatic approach to the finance and management of urban infrastructure; chapters are cross-sectorial and present both theory and practice. This book is for students and practitioners in policy, planning, urban management, infrastructure finance and management.

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• About the Contributors(p. vii)
• Preface(p. xi)
• Acknowledgments(p. xv)
• Abbreviations(p. xvii)
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Introduction(p. 1)
• Global Challenges of Urban Growth, Climate Change, and Finance(p. 3)
• Technological Change(p. 6)
• Microeconomic Reform and Productivity(p. 6)
• Australia as Case Study(p. 9)
• References(p. 11)
• Chapter 2 Urban Management Principles and Instruments
• Introduction(p. 13)
• Urban Policy(p. 19)
• Policy Implementation(p. 27)
• Conclusions(p. 50)
• References(p. 51)
• Chapter 3 Urban Infrastructure: Productivity, Project Evaluation, and Finance
• Introduction(p. 53)
• Which Investments Should Be Undertaken?(p. 55)
• Infrastructure: On Efficiency, Effectiveness and Equity, Markets, and Further Economic Concerns(p. 57)
• Criteria for Choice in Action: Nation Building for the Future(p. 61)
• Assessing the Benefits and Costs: Project Evaluation(p. 63)
• Financial Evaluation(p. 63)
• Cost-Benefit Analysis(p. 64)
• Limitations of Cost-Benefit Analysis(p. 65)
• A Case in Point: Questions about Project Evaluation in Practice(p. 70)
• Further Methodological Challenges: Multicriteria Analysis(p. 71)
• How Should the Investment Be Financed?(p. 73)
• Forms of Financing(p. 75)
• Capital Markets and Infrastructure Financing in Australia since the 1990s(p. 78)
• Conclusions(p. 80)
• References(p. 81)
• Chapter 4 Private-Public Partnerships: Transaction Analysis and the Case of Urban Motorways
• Introduction(p. 83)
• A Private-Public Sector Participation Continuum(p. 85)
• A General Framework for Analyzing Private-Public Partnerships in Infrastructure(p. 86)
• The Melbourne CityLink: A First-Generation Modern Era Build-Own-Operate-Transfer PPP(p. 97)
• Conclusions(p. 118)
• References(p. 119)
• Chapter 5 Land Management and Planning Legislation
• Introduction(p. 121)
• The Land Development Process(p. 122)
• Planning Systems and Land Use Regulation(p. 128)
• Overview of Good Practice Principles(p. 145)
• References(p. 148)
• Chapter 6 Financing and Managing Urban Water
• Introduction(p. 149)
• The Urban Hydrological Cycle(p. 151)
• Climate Change and Its Impact on Urban Water Management(p. 153)
• Water Security: Balancing Demand and Supply(p. 154)
• The Urban Water Industry(p. 163)
• Financing Urban Water Utilities(p. 170)
• The Financial Structure of Water Utilities(p. 172)
• Conclusions(p. 176)
• References(p. 177)
• Chapter 7 Financing and Managing Urban Energy Systems
• Introduction(p. 181)
• Outline of the Chapter(p. 182)
• Energy Systems, Energy Policy, and Governance(p. 182)
• Energy Markets, Resources, and Supply Systems(p. 193)
• Australia: Primary Energy Resources and Supply(p. 196)
• Australia: Secondary Energy Supply and Retailing(p. 199)
• Future Energy Systems(p. 216)
• Conclusions(p. 220)
• References(p. 221)
• Relevant Websites(p. 223)
• Chapter 8 Financing and Managing Urban Transport
• Cameron Gordon
• Introduction(p. 225)
• Urban Transport in Theory(p. 226)
• Australian Transport Shed(p. 228)
• Australian Transport Infrastructure(p. 229)
• Australian Transport Modes(p. 231)
• Australian Transport Policy Structures and Mechanisms(p. 235)
• Australian Urban Transport in Detail(p. 242)
• Conclusions(p. 255)
• References(p. 256)
• Chapter 9 Principles and Systems for Coordination of Infrastructure Investment across Portfolios
• Introduction(p. 259)
• City Shaping and Follower Infrastructure(p. 260)
• "Predict and Provide" versus "Creating the Future"(p. 261)
• Identifying Infrastructure Projects with "City Shaping" Power(p. 264)
• Designing Coordination Systems(p. 270)
• Coordinating City Shaping Infrastructure(p. 271)
• Coordinating Follower Infrastructure(p. 275)
• Challenges(p. 276)
• Planning and Governance at a Metropolitan Scale(p. 278)
• Mission(p. 279)
• Urban Metropolitan Governance(p. 280)
• Role of the Australian Government(p. 283)
• Conclusions(p. 285)
• References(p. 285)
• Glossary(p. 287)
• Index(p. 295)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Associate Professor Kath Wellman is Director, Centre for Developing Cities, ANZSOG Institute of Governance, University of Canberra. Her expertise is in environment, landscape architecture and planning, urban design, urban and business management. She has undertaken environment and governance consultancies for the Murray Darling Basin Authority and for the Australian Landscape Trust and was one of the principle authors of the ANU Development Policy Plan 1992. She was involved in establishing and convened the Masters of Urban Management Course (1997-2001) and established the Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning (2009).

Dr Marcus Spiller is a Director of SGS Economics and Planning Pty Ltd. His consulting experience spans land economics, regional development, housing policy, infrastructure funding and policy co-ordination systems. He has taken up secondments as lecturer in urban economics at Melbourne University, adviser to the Minister for Planning and Housing in Victoria and senior executive in the Queensland Department of Housing, Local Government and Planning. He is an Adjunct Professor of Urban Management at the University of Canberra, a member of the National Housing Supply Council and a former National President of the Planning Institute of Australia.