Proceedings, First Canadian Conference on Urban Infrastructure

📖 The Scoop

The Conference on Urban Infrastructure was a meeting of those concerned with maintaining the quality of Canadian cities in light of several recent studies which showed a serious deterioration of roadways, water systems, stormwater control facilities, public buildings, bridges, and wastewater management systems. The document presents conference proceedings, with full texts of speeches and workshop sessions whose underlying theme was that the urban planning process must allow for operation, maintenance and renewal activities. Sessions contain five papers each on the following themes: the state of urban infrastructure; financing urban infrastructure renewal; managing urban infrastructure renewal; engineering for urban infrastructure renewal (including prospects for district heating and cooling in Toronto, the upgrading of wastewater treatment plants, and municipality liability); underground piping systems; transportation systems (including needs for smaller transit systems); urban structures (including indoor air quality and the sick building syndrome, deterioration of parking garages, bridge structures, and high-rise buildings); and urban infrastructure renewal experience, education and action (includes the Montreal experience).

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