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

尽管地处沿海有潜在的好处，但许多港口和沿海城镇破败不堪，没有吸引力，在经济和社会福利方面表现不佳。这往往是由于建筑环境差，工业和其他遗迹被遗弃，以及城市领域、绿地和海滨之间缺乏有意义的连接。海平面上升和海岸侵蚀进一步构成事关生死存亡的威胁。这些问题在英国各地的港口和沿海城市和城镇都是常见的，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和提升议程至关重要。我们的Network+将使用UKCRIC在蓬勃发展的系统上开发的概念。我们将对基础设施采取以系统为基础、以人为中心的观点；将人放在愿景的中心，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。组成系统的复杂性，以及驱动因素和焦点的异质性，使得优化系统的基础设施系统变得困难，即使在总体上，也是朝着更好的未来。我们将采用视线方法，即积极促进不同社区(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来组织：1.庆祝主要资产：将城镇/城市与海滨连接起来，平衡功能性海滨与环境、公共交通、休闲和遗产的需求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，以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适应气候变化、海平面上升、沿海侵蚀和洪水4.沿海区域运输：解决因沿海或河口沿线的线性发展、目前或以前仍在工作的滨水区以及没有多达一半的内陆地区而产生的往返港口和沿海城镇的交通运输所产生的特殊挑战的问题5。以自然为灵感，以人为本的工程：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床场地，其中三个已被选为代表一系列英国港口和沿海城镇重建需求和问题的典型。这些城市是港口城市南安普顿、兰开斯特和莫克坎贝，以及包括克罗默和谢林厄姆在内的北诺福克海滨城镇。

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.