05507nam 2200697Ia 450 991083082750332120170814173353.01-283-64432-01-118-40163-81-118-40162-X1-118-40165-4(CKB)2670000000230755(EBL)982941(OCoLC)804661998(SSID)ssj0000697078(PQKBManifestationID)11426610(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000697078(PQKBWorkID)10690355(PQKB)10982479(MiAaPQ)EBC982941(PPN)186301480(EXLCZ)99267000000023075520120309d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrUrban infrastructure[electronic resource] finance and management /edited by Kath Wellman and Marcus SpillerChichester ;Ames, Iowa John Wiley & Sons20121 online resource (329 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-470-67218-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Urban Infrastructure: Finance and Management; Contents; About the Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction; Introduction; Global Challenges of Urban Growth, Climate Change, and Finance; Technological Change; Microeconomic Reform and Productivity; Australia as Case Study; References; Chapter 2 Urban Management Principles and Instruments; Introduction; Inputs, Outputs, and Outcomes; Urban Policy; Urban Policy Case Study: Melbourne 2030 - The Strategic Policy Framework for Managing Melbourne's Growth; Policy Implementation; Legislation and RegulationsFiscal MeasuresFinancial Measures; Financial Measures Case Study: Building Better Cities Program (BCP); Institutional Arrangements; Institutional Case Study: Growth Areas Authority; Advocacy; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Management Case Study: Metropolis; Conclusions; References; Chapter 3 Urban Infrastructure: Productivity, Project Evaluation, and Finance; Introduction; Which Investments Should Be Undertaken?; Infrastructure: On Efficiency, Effectiveness and Equity, Markets, and Further Economic Concerns; Criteria for Choice in Action: Nation Building for the FutureAssessing the Benefits and Costs: Project EvaluationFinancial Evaluation; Cost-Benefit Analysis; Limitations of Cost-Benefit Analysis; A Case in Point: Questions about Project Evaluation in Practice; Further Methodological Challenges: Multicriteria Analysis; How Should the Investment Be Financed?; Forms of Financing; Capital Markets and Infrastructure Financing in Australia since the 1990s; Conclusions; References; Chapter 4 Private-Public Partnerships: Transaction Analysis and the Case of Urban Motorways; Introduction; A Private-Public Sector Participation ContinuumA General Framework for Analyzing Private-Public Partnerships in InfrastructureConceptualizing PPPs; The Nature of Property Rights and Their Allocation in PPPs; Incentive Conflicts and PPPs; Transaction Governance; The Melbourne CityLink: A First-Generation Modern Era Build-Own-Operate-Transfer PPP; The Melbourne CityLink Build-Own-Operate-Transfer Project; CityLink: Selected Transaction Mechanisms; CityLink: Behavioral Assumptions; CityLink: Complexity in Executing the Venture; CityLink: The Transaction in Operation-Managing Incentive Conflicts; Conclusions; ReferencesChapter 5 Land Management and Planning LegislationIntroduction; The Land Development Process; The Net Residual Land Value Model; The Boom-Bust Cycle; 'Betterment' and Development Licensing; Outward Urban Expansion; Planning Systems and Land Use Regulation; Elements of Planning Systems; Plans and Plan Making; The Substantive Content of Plans; Development Assessment Processes; Plan Formulation; Horizontal Integration in Plan Making; Vertical Integration in Plan Making; Community Involvement in the Making of Plans; Flexibility in Amending PlansDevelopment Rights and Compensation in the Plan-Making ProcessThe magnitude of investment, the long time-frames involved and the influence of pre-existing infrastructure on urban infrastructure provision make a co-ordinated approach to forward-planning, policy development and implementation essential. There are major challenges in making decisions on urban infrastructure and getting management structures and processes in place. Getting it right generates long-term dividends; getting it wrong involves major costs, often borne by taxpayers. Urban Infrastructure: finance and management is posited on a strong belief that the physical structureInfrastructure (Economics)FinanceInfrastructure (Economics)AustraliaFinanceCase studiesPublic worksUrban economicsUrban policyInfrastructure (Economics)Finance.Infrastructure (Economics)FinancePublic works.Urban economics.Urban policy.363.60681Spiller Marcus1668109Wellman Kath1668110MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910830827503321Urban infrastructure4028439UNINA