The Demand Management represents an important tool to achieve an urban infrastructure management aiming at the optimization of the urban system life cycle and at the settlement sustainability. Such an approach is based on the assumption that infrastructure and urban service assets represent a resource whose use should be carefully planned and managed over time, avoiding a thoughtless use that would accelerate the processes of degradation and resource depletion – because of an inefficient service delivery or because of the construction of a number of structures excessive if compared to the real community needs. The policies of demand management can affect the population’s perception and awareness of service need in order to give alternative answers which don’t require any increases, replacements, or interventions within the existing infrastructure assets. All the possible outcomes of such an approach are relevant both in economical and environmental terms, since they don’t only allow considerable savings in investments in infrastructure re-qualification and/or replacement – whose need is postponed, but they also allow to significantly extend the system life cycles thanks to the decrease in the use intensity and frequency.

Urban Sustainability and Maintenance. The Demand Management as a Tool for an Integrated Approach

DI SIVO, Michele;LADIANA, DANIELA
2007-01-01

Abstract

The Demand Management represents an important tool to achieve an urban infrastructure management aiming at the optimization of the urban system life cycle and at the settlement sustainability. Such an approach is based on the assumption that infrastructure and urban service assets represent a resource whose use should be carefully planned and managed over time, avoiding a thoughtless use that would accelerate the processes of degradation and resource depletion – because of an inefficient service delivery or because of the construction of a number of structures excessive if compared to the real community needs. The policies of demand management can affect the population’s perception and awareness of service need in order to give alternative answers which don’t require any increases, replacements, or interventions within the existing infrastructure assets. All the possible outcomes of such an approach are relevant both in economical and environmental terms, since they don’t only allow considerable savings in investments in infrastructure re-qualification and/or replacement – whose need is postponed, but they also allow to significantly extend the system life cycles thanks to the decrease in the use intensity and frequency.
2007
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