With the global urban population becoming 7.0 billion by 2050, there will be
a huge demand of the provision of basic infrastructure to this population. With the
growing concerns over climate change and energy /resource scarcity, there is a need of
paradigm shift from the ‘Romanesque’ idea of infrastructure provision to a sustainable
and resilient urban infrastructure which should be designed, constructed and operated
within the means of nature. The goal of a sustainable and resilient urban infrastructure is
not only to provide the infrastructure amenities but also to develop the socioeconomic
attributes of the urban system. In order to attain this goal, the interconnection between
the individual infrastructure components and their inter-relation with the socioeconomic
attributes needs to be understood. Based on this understanding, many Low Impact
Development alternatives for urban infrastructure, including but not limited to
stormwater management, can be assessed designed and applied to attain this goal.
Keywords: Best Management Practice (BMP), ‘Big-pipe concept’, Bluebelt,
Combined Heat and Power (CHP), Compact Communities, Daylighting,
Decentralized Infrastructure, District heating and cooling, Energy infrastructure,
Freshwater stress, Global population, Green Landscaping, Greenhouse Gas (GHG)
emission, Greywater heat recovery, Indigenous Landscape, Infrastructure,
Interdependence, Land-use, Light-Emitting Diode (LED) lighting, Low-flow
fixtures, Low-Impact Development (LID), On-site wastewater treatment, Pervious
Pavements, Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs), Rainwater harvesting, Resilient/Resiliency, ‘Romanesque’ idea, Socio-economic environment, Stormwater
Management, Sustainable/Sustainability, Transportation infrastructure, Urban
infrastructure, UrbanSim, Urine separation, Wastewater infrastructure, Water-
Energy Nexus, Water infrastructure, What-If, Window Design.
