Infrastructure as a Deeply Integrated Sustainable Urban Project

C. Cucuzzella, Sherif Goubran
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This paper explores infrastructure projects that present a conscious merging between urban transformation, community development, culture, and technology through sustainable design. When urban projects successfully and meaningfully include all these dimensions, we refer to them as “blended infrastructure” projects, since they offer much more than just infrastructure. A literature review pertaining to the rejuvenation and renewal of cities reveals that infrastructure projects have the potential to be at once, smart and ecological as well as cultural and deeply integrated urban interventions. We, therefore, propose that ‘blended infrastructure’ projects are those that profoundly integrate anthropological and technological dimensions. These two poles are the basis of our analysis method. Our methodology, which includes a mapping tool, is used to cartograph a series of design projects. We select two sets of projects for analysis. First, we select “light infrastructure” projects that are not yet built, still in an imaginary phase, which have a common underlying positive intention of bringing sustainability to the city. Second, we select heavier, already built, infrastructure projects, those subjected to real-world constraints, i.e., economic, political, etc. These polarities (light and imagined vs. heavy and realized) will help test the applicability of this mapping approach on different types of infrastructures. By studying projects on either side of a spatial design spectrum, we aim to understand which types of projects have a potential to be “blended infrastructure” projects—and therefore, deeply integrated sustainable urban interventions, as key contributions to the future of our cities
基础设施作为一个深度整合的可持续城市项目
本文探讨了通过可持续设计将城市转型、社区发展、文化和技术有意识地融合在一起的基础设施项目。当城市项目成功且有意义地包含所有这些维度时,我们将其称为“混合基础设施”项目,因为它们提供的不仅仅是基础设施。一项关于城市复兴和更新的文献综述表明,基础设施项目有潜力立即成为智能、生态、文化和深度整合的城市干预措施。因此,我们建议“混合基础设施”项目是那些深刻整合人类学和技术维度的项目。这两个极点是我们分析方法的基础。我们的方法,其中包括一个绘图工具,用于绘制一系列设计项目。我们选择两组项目进行分析。首先,我们选择了尚未建成的“光基础设施”项目,这些项目仍处于想象阶段,它们具有共同的潜在积极意图,即为城市带来可持续性。其次,我们选择较重的、已经建成的基础设施项目,这些项目受到现实世界的限制,即经济、政治等方面的限制。这些极性(轻和想象vs重和实现)将有助于测试这种映射方法在不同类型基础设施上的适用性。通过研究空间设计光谱两侧的项目,我们旨在了解哪些类型的项目有潜力成为“混合基础设施”项目,从而深入整合可持续城市干预措施,为我们城市的未来做出重要贡献
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