Urban infrastructure is not a tree: Integrating and decentralizing urban infrastructure systems

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 553-569

  Derrible, Sybil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Decentralization; Integration; Resilience; Sustainability; Urban infrastructure planning

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALIZATION; INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING; PLANNING PRACTICE; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN PLANNING;

EID: 85021694581     PISSN: 23998083     EISSN: 23998091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0265813516647063     Document Type: Article

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