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.

尽管沿海地区有潜在的好处，但许多港口和沿海城镇和城市都很破旧，没有吸引力，在经济和社会福利方面表现不佳。这通常是由于建筑环境差，工业和其他遗留场地落后，以及城市领域，绿色空间和海滨之间缺乏有意义的连通性。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，对英国政府的净零排放和水平化议程至关重要。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，这些系统必须设计为可持续，包容，安全和有弹性。由于组成系统的复杂性，以及驱动因素和焦点的异质性，即使在总体上优化系统的基础设施系统，也很难实现更美好的未来。我们将采用视线方法，积极促进不同社区的发展（人民、专家、当局、政府、投资者）了解其当前和潜在的优先事项和作用;然后沿着一致的思路，探索和发展以新的共同目标为重点的协同作用。网络+的活动将通过五个相互依存的部分组织起来：1.庆祝主要资产：连接市镇/城市与海滨，平衡功能性海滨与环境、公众通道、消闲及文物的需要2.包容性基础设施：与社区、政策制定者、公共部门和企业接触，确保有效的基础设施开发和使用保持和增强复原力：使港口和沿海城镇的再生能够抵御气候变化、海平面上升、海岸侵蚀和洪水。沿海地区运输：解决与港口和沿海城镇的往返运输和内部运输的特殊挑战有关的问题，这些挑战是由于沿着海岸或河口的线性发展、目前或以前的工作滨水区以及多达一半的沿海土地5的缺失而产生的。大自然启发，人类规模的工程：包括绿化灰色基础设施，为周围社区提供/提高社会价值将广泛使用试验基地，其中三个被选为典型的英国港口和沿海城市和城镇再生需求和问题。这些是港口城市南安普顿、兰开斯特和莫雷坎贝，以及包括克罗默和谢林汉姆在内的北诺福克海滨城镇。