Planning major infrastructure : a critical analysis

xv, 299 p.

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Cover; Planning Major Infrastructure; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Preface; Part I: Framing infrastructure and planning; Chapter 1. Introducing infrastructure and "infrastructuralism"; Big infrastructure; What do we mean by infrastructure?; The infrastructure studied here; Why has major infrastructure become a big issue recently?; Infrastructure challenges - infrastructure gaps?; Infrastructure challenges and the economy; Infrastructure challenges and the environment; Infrastructure in overall historical perspective; Conclusions

Chapter 2. Infrastructure industries and infrastructure governmentInfrastructure provision over time; The new infrastructure industries; Regulation of infrastructure industries; The nature of infrastructure sectors in contemporary Europe; Ports; Airports; Roads; Rail; Water; Energy; Waste management; Government and infrastructure; Conclusions - making infrastructure, governing infrastructure; Chapter 3. Possible new infrastructure: generating the need and imagining the forms; Overall forces behind infrastructure change; The macro spacing of infrastructure generation

The timing of infrastructure generationThe parts of infrastructure; Geographical shapes of infrastructure systems; How infrastructure is understood - seeing infrastructure; How infrastructure is understood - national imaginaries; Conclusions; Chapter 4. Planning major infrastructure - strategies and projects; Thinking about planning in this field; Strategic planning for major infrastructure; National strategising; Sub-national strategising; European Union/international strategising; Infrastructure and projects; State consenting for projects; Projects, agonism and democracy

Strategies and projectsPart II: National case studies; Chapter 5. The Netherlands; Governing and producing infrastructure; The Netherlands as a country, and the way infrastructure needs are generated; Spatial planning as a whole; National planning; Coordination of infrastructure and spatial planning; Strategic planning and infrastructure; Sectoral planning at national level; Spatial planning and major infrastructure projects; Sectors and spatial planning; Conclusions; Chapter 6. France; Introduction; State, politics and infrastructure industries

Forces generating infrastructure needs or demandsThe French planning system and coordinating arrangements; The scope and range of macro spatial planning and the relationship to infrastructure planning; Planning and implementation; National sectoral planning and infrastructure; Projects, the system of "debat public" and the speed up issue; Conclusions; Chapter 7. Spain; Spanish government and infrastructure industries; The forces which generate the perceived need for new infrastructure; The Spanish planning system and coordinating arrangements; Catalonia - a regional case, if an unusual one

National sectoral planning and infrastructure

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