Contextual Practices in City Infrastructure Planning in the US and Indonesia

Deskripsi

This dissertation contains an international examination of infrastructure planning in context, which applies new institutional economics and transaction cost economic theory in a comparative international study. The chapters include a collection of exemplary social infrastructure practices across the global north and south, and two chapters that compare and contrast economic zone development and the discretionary approach to urban planning in the US city of Seattle and the Indonesian island of Batam, with respect to the make or buy decision and to water infrastructure project outcomes.