Existing Infrastructures: A Restriction For Real Sustainable Development?
Price
Free (open access)
Transaction
Volume
72
Pages
10
Published
2004
Size
371 kb
Paper DOI
10.2495/SC040021
Copyright
WIT Press
Author(s)
A. van Timmeren, J. Kristinsson & L.C. Roling
Abstract
In urban planning space, most of the generated energy, water clearance and waste(water)-treatment is found outside the city districts or even cities. The distances for transportation of energy, water and waste(water) continue to increase. The consequence of this need to transport energy, water and waste to centralised plants outside cities and consequently an enormous amount of ‘technical infrastructure’ is an additional use of energy, water and materials. In particular the technical infrastructure needed for the transportation of wastewater, warmth and electrici
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