Infrastructure for Port And Coastal cities and Towns network (iPACT)

港口和沿海城镇网络基础设施 (iPACT)

• 批准号: EP/W033933/1
• 负责人: William Powrie
• 金额: $ 119.64万
• 依托单位: University of Southampton
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FW033933%2F1
• 关键词: Infrastructure; Port; Coastal; cities; Towns

Despite the potential benefits of a location on the coast, many port and coastal towns and cities are run-down and unattractive, and underperform in economic and social wellbeing terms. This is often a result of a poor built environment, derelict industrial and other legacy sites, and a lack of meaningful connectivity between the urban realm, green spaces and the waterfront. Rising sea levels and coastal erosion pose further, existential, threats. These issues are common to port and coastal cities and towns all around the UK, hence transcend simplistic north/south or east/west categorisation or division. Addressing them through effective, sustainable and resilient regeneration is essential to the UK Government's Net Zero and Levelling Up agenda. Our Network+ will use concepts developed by UKCRIC on Flourishing Systems. We will take a systems-based, people-focussed view of infrastructure; keeping people at the centre of the vision, considering infrastructure as a way of connecting together interdependent systems, which must be designed to be sustainable, inclusive, secure and resilient. The complexity of the component systems, and the heterogeneity of drivers and foci, makes it difficult to optimise the infrastructure system of systems, even generally, towards a better future.We will adopt the Line of Sight approach, which involves actively facilitating different communities (people, experts, authorities, government, investors) to understand their current and potential priorities and roles; then to explore and develop synergies focused on new, common objectives along aligned lines of sight. The activities of the Network+ will be organised through five interdependent strands: 1. Celebrating the major asset: connecting the town/city with the waterfront, balancing the needs of a functional waterfront with ambience, public accessibility, leisure and heritage 2. Inclusive infrastructure: engaging with communities, policymakers, the public sector and business to ensure effective infrastructure development and use 3. Maintaining and enhancing resilience: making port and coastal city and town regeneration resilient to climate change, sea-level rise, coastal erosion and flooding 4. Coastal region transport: addressing issues associated with the particular challenges of transport to/from and within port and coastal cities and towns arising from linear development along the coast or estuary, a current or former working waterfront, and the absence of up to half the hinterland5. Nature inspired, human scale engineering: including greening the grey infrastructure, to provide/enhance social value for the surrounding communitiesExtensive use will be made of testbed sites, with three having been selected as typifying a range of UK port and coastal city and town regeneration needs and issues. These are the port city of Southampton, Lancaster and Morecambe, and North Norfolk seaside towns including Cromer and Sheringham.

尽管沿海地区具有潜在的优势，但许多港口和沿海城镇都破败不堪，缺乏吸引力，在经济和社会福祉方面表现不佳。这通常是由于恶劣的建筑环境、废弃的工业和其他遗留场地以及城市领域、绿色空间和滨水区之间缺乏有意义的连通性造成的。海平面上升和海岸侵蚀构成了进一步的生存威胁。这些问题在英国各地的港口和沿海城镇都很常见，因此超越了简单的北/南或东/西分类或划分。通过有效、可持续和有弹性的再生来解决这些问题对于英国政府的净零排放和升级议程至关重要。我们的 Network+ 将使用 UKCRIC 在 Flourishing Systems 上开发的概念。我们将以系统为基础、以人为本的基础设施观；将人置于愿景的中心，将基础设施视为连接相互依赖的系统的一种方式，其设计必须具有可持续性、包容性、安全性和弹性。组件系统的复杂性，以及驱动因素和焦点的异质性，使得系统的基础设施系统的优化变得困难，甚至一般来说，朝着更美好的未来发展也是如此。我们将采用视线方法，其中包括积极促进不同的社区（人员、专家、当局、政府、投资者）了解他们当前和潜在的优先事项和角色；然后沿着一致的视线探索和发展专注于新的共同目标的协同作用。 Network+ 的活动将通过五个相互依存的方面进行组织： 1. 庆祝主要资产：将城镇/城市与滨水区连接起来，平衡功能性滨水区的需求与氛围、公共可达性、休闲和遗产 2. 包容性基础设施：与社区、政策制定者、公共部门和企业合作，确保有效的基础设施开发和使用 3. 保持和增强复原力：使港口和沿海城市和城镇的重建能够抵御气候变化、海平面上升、海岸侵蚀和洪水 4.沿海地区交通：解决由于沿海或河口沿线的线性开发、当前或以前的工作滨水区以及多达一半腹地的缺失而产生的与进出港口和沿海城镇以及在港口和沿海城镇内运输的特殊挑战相关的问题5 。受自然启发的人性化工程：包括绿化灰色基础设施，为周围社区提供/增强社会价值将广泛使用试验台场地，其中三个被选为典型的英国港口和沿海城市和城镇重建需求和问题。这些是港口城市南安普敦、兰开斯特和莫克姆，以及北诺福克海滨城镇，包括克罗默和谢林汉姆。