Articles & Researchs
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Abstract
The world is facing challenges,
Development Of Urban
rapid
urbanization,
natural
hazards, and the effects of climate
change, to name just a few. All
Underground Space: From
these challenges are impacting
our lives and they all need to be
considered when looking at the
Sustainability To Resilience
cities of the future.
The urban world is transitioning to
a new context. This requires us to
think in new ways based on new
paradigms related to metabolism,
resilience, new mobility economy
of resources and long term
management.
In this presentation, we will analyze
the relation between underground
space and the concepts of
sustainable and resilient cities.
The case study of Montréal gives
the
possibility
of
large-scale
Introduction:
some insights into the possibilities
subsurface
development
and
As
the
urbanization
process
but also the impediments of
use. A vision of an optimized use
advances rapidly all over the world,
underground management. We
and management of the urban
the sustainable development of
will demonstrate that the use of
underground space is essential.
urban areas becomes an issue of
urban underground space is not
Without a strategy showing the
global and major importance.
only a technical issue related
way of this valuable spatial asset
There are different ways to address
to civil engineering, geology
has to be managed in an efficient
sustainability
issues
in
urban
or ecology, but restricted by
way, the cities will face spatial
development.
legislation that never considered
congestion.
A city can develop specific policies
in the form of legislation and plans
to address particular issues that are
important for local sustainability.
Integrating
sustainability
considerations into existing city
policies and development plans is
equally important (Bobylev,2009).
A city Master plan is a document
that traditionally governs urban
development in terms of land use:
building new structures and codes,
roads, recreation areas, etc.
The different types of urban
infrastructure are the key features
of a Master plan.
Urban
infrastructure
includes
transport, utilities, etc. Planning
infrastructure is very important,
since many urban development
issues and citizens' daily lives
depend
upon
infrastructure
services.
The
importance
of
underground space is variable in
function of cities. For example, the
inner city of Montreal, till recent

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