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Infrastructure Renovation
& Replacement
Your community's revitalization should eventually encompass your
entire region for maximum effectiveness. But, it
can start with a primary focus on any of the
12 sectors of restorable assets, at any scale.
One of the best starting points for regional renewal is
infrastructure. Within that sector, water and
transportation infrastructure are often the best
candidates for integrated regional renewal programs.
Water quality/quantity issues and public transit
challenges are often reliable ways of motivate
jurisdictions to work together when nothing else will.
If you've already got a strong
infrastructure renewal program, it can be an excellent
foundation from which to launch your
Renewal Capacity Program.
Definition &
overview: There's no formal definition of
infrastructure restoration, as it can focus on a number of
restorable functions and assets, such as drinking water
treatment & distribution, sewage collection & treatment,
transportation, power, telecommunications, and solid
waste. Our short definition is "everything that
connects our built environment and allows flows: flows
of traffic, power, information, waste, water, etc."
There are other
categories of infrastructure that are either specialized
(such as security infrastructure), or that are new
concepts. An example of the latter is "green
infrastructure", which recognizes that the majority of
critical assets upon which we rely, such as air, fresh
water, food, etc. are products of nature. The phrase
"green infrastructure" was coined in order to get
society to take the maintenance and restoration of these
assets seriously, because we tend to take them for
granted, expending the majority of our funds on built
infrastructure.
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