The Elgar Companion to Urban Infrastructure Governance

Edited by Matthias Finger, Professor Emeritus, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne, Switzerland and Professor, Istanbul Technical University (ITÜ), Turkey and Numan Yanar, Ph.D. in Earth Science and Environmental Engineering, Postdoctoral Researcher, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Korea and Editor and Research Affiliate, Innovative Governance for Large Urban Systems (IGLUS), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Middle East Campus, United Arab Emirates

Contents:

1 Introduction 1
Matthias Finger and Numan Yanar

PART I CASES
2 Detroit: A history of financial challenges for the motor city
government 16
Eric A. Scorsone
3 Cities facing economic development challenges: The case of
the Mexico City Metropolitan Area 32
Alejandra Trejo Nieto
4 Deciphering the complex structure of large urban systems
through the case study of Istanbul 51
Başak Demireş Özkul
5 Housing urbanism: Collective representation and its impact in the city 68
Armando Tetsuya Hashimoto Hongo
6 Sustainable community design amidst social challenges:
Insights from Nairobi, Kenya 87
Cherie Enns
7 Metropolitan governance: The challenge for the metropolitan
area of Mexico City 109
Edgar O. Tungü. Rodríguez

PART II CONCEPTUALIZATIONS
8 Urban energy systems: Municipal utilities and the case of Switzerland 129
Christian Opitz
9 Digitalization in urban mobility: An assessment through the
IGLUS framework 148
Umut Alkım Tuncer
10 Brownfield infrastructures 165
Francesco Gastaldi and Federico Camerin
11 A sociotechnical perspective on integrated urban water systems 181
Janice A. Beecher and James F. Burton
12 Telecommunication systems 200
Ezatul Faizura Mustaffa Kamal Effendee
13 Urban waste management: The case of Turkey and Istanbul 218
Fatih Hoşoğlu
14 Well-connected urban green infrastructures for more livable
and resilient urban systems 238
Andréa Finger-Stich

PART III GOVERNANCE
15 Efficiency in urban systems 264
J. Ernst Drewes
16 Large urban systems: Towards a sustainability framework 284
Mariske Van Aswegen and Francois Pieter Retief
17 Resilience of urban systems: Perspective for the integration of
climate resilience actions in the resilient cities network 308
Arnoldo Matus Kramer, Rodríguez-Izquierdo Emilio, and Abril Cid
18 Central–metropolitan government relations over urban
infrastructure governance: The case of Istanbul 329
İnan İzci
19 Citizen participation 350
İmge Akçakaya Waite
20 Planning 365
Ignazio Vinci
21 Digitalization 383
Matthias Finger
22 Urban infrastructures implemented in public–private partnerships 400
Nicolas Hatem

Index 419