Infrastructural Ecologies - Brown, Hillary; Stigge, Byron
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An integrated, holistic model for infrastructure planning and design in developing countries. Many emerging nations, particularly those least developed, lack basic critical infrastructural services—affordable energy, clean drinking water, dependable sanitation, and effective public transportation, along with reliable food systems. Many of these countries cannot afford the complex and resource-intensive systems based on Western, single-sector, industrialized models. In this book, Hillary Brown and Byron Stigge propose an alternate model for planning and designing infrastructural services in the…mehr

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An integrated, holistic model for infrastructure planning and design in developing countries. Many emerging nations, particularly those least developed, lack basic critical infrastructural services—affordable energy, clean drinking water, dependable sanitation, and effective public transportation, along with reliable food systems. Many of these countries cannot afford the complex and resource-intensive systems based on Western, single-sector, industrialized models. In this book, Hillary Brown and Byron Stigge propose an alternate model for planning and designing infrastructural services in the emerging market context. This new model is holistic and integrated, resilient and sustainable, economical and equitable, creating an infrastructural ecology that is more analogous to the functioning of natural ecosystems. Brown and Stigge identify five strategic infrastructure objectives and illustrate each with examples of successful projects from across the developing world. Each chapter also highlights exemplary preindustrial systems, demonstrating the long history of resilient, sustainable infrastructure. The case studies describe the use of single solutions to solve multiple problems, creating hybridized and reciprocal systems; “soft path” models for water management, including water reuse and nutrient recovery; post carbon infrastructures for power, heat, and transportation such as rural microhydro and solar-powered rickshaws; climate adaptation systems, including a multi-purpose tunnel and a “floating city”; and the need for community-based, equitable, and culturally appropriate projects.
Autorenporträt
Hillary Brown is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, Professor Emerita, City College, City University of New York, and the former Director of CCNY's interdisciplinary graduate program in urban sustainability. For over three decades, she's focused on energy and resource-efficient buildings and infrastructure. As an Assistant Commissioner, she founded New York City's Office of Sustainable Design in 1997, publishing both the City of New York's High -Performance Building- (1999) and Infrastructure Guidelines (2005). For six years, she served on the Board of Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment (BICE) under the Research Council of the National Academies. Previous books include Next Generation Infrastructure: Principles for Post-Industrial Public Works (2014); and Infrastructural Ecologies: Alternative Development Models for Emerging Economies (2017). For her leadership in sustainable buildings and infrastructure, Hillary was elected to the National Academy of Construction in 2019.