WIT Press


Existing Infrastructures: A Restriction For Real Sustainable Development?

Price

Free (open access)

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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