Full Description
As cities face mounting pressures from aging infrastructure, climate change, and social inequities, new approaches are needed to design resilient, sustainable, and equitable urban systems. This book introduces a powerful, step-by-step methodology for conceptualizing and managing complex infrastructure projects through the unique lens of systems architecture, showing how this approach supports better decision-making, transparency, and collaboration. Drawing on real-world examples, the book explores concepts including trade-offs, stakeholder needs, and system interdependencies. It demonstrates how to integrate qualitative and quantitative factors, navigate uncertainty, and reason across diverse disciplines and timescales. Crucially, this book offers long-awaited solutions for bridging the technical and social demands of urban infrastructure design. By extending systems architecture into the urban domain, it offers a practical yet theoretically grounded framework for addressing 21st-century infrastructure challenges. This accessible and forward-looking guide is valuable for anyone involved in shaping the future of urban systems, from engineers to urbanists.
Contents
1. A Systems Approach to Infrastructure; 2. Boundaries, Stakeholders, and Infrastructure System Definition; 3. Systems Architecture, Theory and Method; 4. Systems Architecting Urban Infrastructure: BQE Case Study; 5. Systems Architecture For Civic Flourishing; 6. Architecting Infrastructure Procurement, Development, and Operational Management; 7. Architecting Federated Infrastructure Systems; 8. Enabling Change: Systems Education and Workforce Development; Index.
