Integration of urban physical infrastructure into land use governance

Nikolai Bobylev & Ian Jefferson2

Urban physical infrastructure (UPI) is one of the major assets of a city in terms of capital investment, critical services provisioning, and sustainable and resilient urban development. UPI includes physical objects like roads, sewerage, energy networks. Globally UPI is facing increasing challenges in sustaining its services under pressures of urbanization and climate change factors; yet UPI itself can be used as an effective policy tool to govern urban expansion and wider land use. The paper considers factors of global environmental change, its land use implications, and the process of UPI development that would reflect these contemporary challenges. The influence of different types of infrastructure has been increasingly going beyond their core functions, which suggests that a broader array of stakeholders should be involved in making decisions on infrastructure development policies. A Governance concept, as a much broader than government or management ones, has been applied to consider UPI influences, stakeholders, and development strategies.

Event: Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty : Integrating Land Governance into the Post-2015 Agenda : Harnassing Synergies for Implementation and Monitoring Impact

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