Sustainable and Resilient Cities: Is It an Infrastructure Problem?

The behavior of urban network infrastructures and their interactions have direct and indirect consequences on the risk management and the optimization of their environmental performance. By urban networks, the authors include all the urban technical networks like transportation, energy, water supply, waste water, and telecommunications able to spread risks and to optimize the environmental performances in cities. These infrastructures are qualified by the term critical in a risk assessment approach and sometimes green when they are design with the sustainability rules and practices. In their approach, the authors analyze these infrastructures with one filter related to the resilience and another one related to the sustainability. These two concepts are important for decision makers and also for concerned population. The authors present the analysis bout the complementarities between the two approaches. These remarks are based on the authors' experience of Paris. The key elements are the frugality, resources, resistance, absorption, impact, and recover. The proposed analysis is based on a bottom/up approach to consolidate the theoretical analysis. Some conclusions will be discussed on the difference between the principles of sustainability and resilience in the field of urban networks.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784481196.002
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2017 American Society of Civil Engineers.
• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Civil Engineers

  New York, New York  United States 

  Committee on Sustainability

  ,    
• Authors:
  • Diab, Youssef
• Conference:
  • International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure 2017
  • Location: New York New York, United States
  • Date: 2017-10-26 to 2017-10-28
• Publication Date: 2017-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: 9p
• Monograph Title: International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure 2017: Methodology

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cities; Infrastructure; Networks; Sustainable development; Urban areas
• Subject Areas: Environment; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01684329
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780784481196
• Files: TRIS, ASCE
• Created Date: Oct 26 2018 10:35AM