ABSTRACT

Green resilient infrastructures can provide important benefits for urban design. However, there are challenges associated with securing the necessary funding and, even where viable funding models have been established, there is evidence that these can reinforce superficial approaches to design. The aim of this paper is to investigate new models of financing green resilient infrastructures in terms of their socio-spatial implications. It provides a case study of the ‘co-financing’ system established in Copenhagen to realise the city’s plans for ‘blue-green’ stormwater management. It highlights limitations to this system including that it requires identifying a discrete ‘design dimension’ of stormwater projects. This embeds an understanding of design as an additional layer which is vulnerable to being discarded in financially constrained circumstances. The paper’s contributions are its analysis of the limitations of existing models of financing green resilient infrastructures and its identification of the need for new funding models to facilitate more integrated design.

摘要

具有绿色弹性的基础设施可以为城市设计提供重要的好处。但是，在获得必要的资金方面存在一些挑战，即使已经建立了可行的资金模型，也有证据表明，这些模型可以加强表面的设计方法。本文的目的是从社会空间意义上研究为绿色弹性基础设施融资的新模式。它提供了在哥本哈根建立的“共同筹资”系统的案例研究，以实现该市的“蓝绿色”雨水管理计划。它强调了该系统的局限性，包括需要确定雨水项目的离散“设计维度”。这将对设计的理解作为附加层来嵌入，该附加层很容易在经济拮据的情况下被丢弃。本文的贡献在于，它分析了现有的绿色弹性基础设施融资模式的局限性，并确定了需要新的融资模式以促进更集成化设计的需求。