Integrating Landscape, Ecology and Urbanism in UrbanTransportation Corridors Planning and Design: MeasuringInfrastructure Sustainability in Melbourne’s EastLink

The interrelationships between ecological and landscape urbanist approaches andengineering practice in planning, design and delivery of transportation corridors,i.e. urban highways are studied in the current research. The aim of the research isto link theories of landscape, ecology and urbanism to infrastructure projects tofind out how and to what degree these can be integrated in planning, design,construction, and operation process and help the project sustainability.In order to determine the values of urban built infrastructure, specificallymovement corridors, at the scale of an urban project, and measure thesustainability criteria for that, a case study is conducted on EastLink, a largescale infrastructural transportation project in Melbourne, Australia, to present aframework for observing and mapping actual design and delivery process. Thecase study is done using Infrastructure Sustainability (IS) rating schemedeveloped by the Australian Green Infrastructure Council (AGIC). As a result,the research presents an approach for urban infrastructural projects based on thesustainable development principles and provides a framework for assistingplanner, designers, and builders of urban infrastructure to enhance them from anecological and urban perspective in interaction with other urban land uses formultiple functions at regional and local scales.

کلیدواژه ها:

infrastructure ، transportation corridor ، landscape ، ecology ، urbanism ، sustainability