Metropolitan Growth

Focus: Urban Infrastructure

By: Iqbal Haque
 Introduction
• The necessities that are required to operate a society or enterprise are defined
as an Infrastructure. These necessities can be buildings, roads and power
supplies. This presentation will focus on capital construction and financing
mainly for densely populated urban areas that are key concepts into turning
any environment into a driving urban area.
 Goals for infrastructure Projects
• Investment in infrastructure is a counter cyclical role. The numerous projects
that are supervised in infrastructure development, whether or not it is a
private or public partnership usually follows that the optimal key is to ensure
that their implementation of said projects are expedited and planned in a way
where they are not later suffering from a funding failure in the future.
 Internal Facilities that make business or
economic activity possible
• Communication
• Transportation
• Distribution networks
• Financial institutes and markets
• Energy supply systems
 Infrastructure Includes
• Communication: Internet, Mass media, Mobile.
• Transportation: Shipping, Railway, Airports and Roads.
• Distribution Networks.
• Financial institutions and Markets: FDI, FII and Banking
• Energy Supply Systems: Petroleum, Biogas, Water gas, Thermal, Hydro,
Nuclear, Solar, Tidal, Wind.
What successful Infrastructure efforts looks
like
What successful Infrastructure efforts looks
like
 FACTORS FOR SUCCESFUL
INFRASTRUCTURE
• General Education .
• Science and Technology (Households, Agriculture, and Industry)
• Health-Care systems
 TWO TYPES OF INFRASTRUCTURE

• ECONOMIC INFRASTRUCTURE
• SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE
 ECONOMIC INFRASTRUCTURE
• Economic infrastructure means those basic facilities and services which
directly benefits the process of production and distribution of an economy.
Irrigation, power, transport and communication are the examples of
economic infrastructures
 SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE
• Social infrastructure means those basic activities and services which, in
addition to achieving certain social objectives, indirectly help various
economic activities. Education, heath service, sanitation and water supply etc.
are the example of social infrastructure.
WHY IS INFRASTRUCTURE IMPORTANT
FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH?
• Infrastructure means connectivity like road, rail, ports and
telecommunications. These are basic to economic development and growth.
With connectivity the economy will open to outside world, trade and
commerce will flourish.
• With connectivity, industries (MTA, AIRPORTS, MASS
TRANSPORTATION) will be established and serve as labor and capital
producers.
WHY IS INFRASTRUCTURE IMPORTANT
FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH?
• Housing, education and health services also constitute part of infrastructure
development which ensure improvement in quality of life
 Examples of Infrastructure efforts in foreign
countries
• The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved US$ 631 million loan to
develop the first coastal corridor, an industrial corridor, which is expected to
bring manufacturing and export industries to the east coast.
• The Government of India has unveiled plans to invest US$ 137 billion in its
rail network over the next five years, causing the Prime Ministers aggressive
approach to building infrastructure needed to unlock faster economic
growth.
 Examples of Infrastructure efforts in foreign
countries
• The Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) of Malaysia has
proposed to invest in urban development and housing projects, such as a
mini-smart city adjacent to Railway Stations, a green city project and urban
cleaning projects
 Challenges
to infrastructure
• Transport: Rural connectivity is an issue in some areas.
• Energy
• Budget cuts
• Financial periods of recessions
What Infrastructure and metropolitan growth
looks like in America
 Conclusion: How to ensure metropolitan
growth continues progressively
• Investments in urban development and the continuation of new urban
projects like schools, hospitals, transportation systems.
• Maintain a healthy relation and ratio to city population and job security.