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"The book documents the evolution of Asia's infrastructure over the past half-century and reviews existing literature on the role of infrastructure investment in supporting growth and social development. It highlights the implications of tax financing and mass transit investments on land and property values and infrastructure financing. It then examines Asia's current practices and new solutions that can help meet the infrastructure gap. It discusses the role of institutions, how innovation can foster energy infrastructure investments, and the role of bond markets in infrastructure investments. The book explores ASEAN+3 efforts in developing local currency bond markets to provide long-term local financing for infrastructure investment while providing financial resilience. It also examines the use of green bonds to finance sustainable growth in Asia and the role of housing bond markets in infrastructure investment"--

When infrastructures fail / Stephen Graham -- Managing the risk of cascading failure in complex urban infrastructures / Richard G. Little -- Disoriented city : infrastructure, social order, and the policy response to Hurricane Katrina / Benjamin Sims -- Power loss or blackout : the electricity network collapse of August 2003 in North America / Timothy W. Luke -- Containing insecurity : logistic space, U.S. port cities, and the "war on terror" / Deborah Cowen -- Clogged cities : sclerotic infrastructure / Simon Marvin and Will Medd-- Securitizing networked flows : infectious diseases and airports / S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil -- Disruption by design : urban infrastructure and political violence / Stephen Graham -- Infrastructure, interruption, and inequality : urban life in the global south / Colin McFarlane

1. Digitalizing infrastructure: active management for smarter networks / Juan Montero and Matthias Finger -- 2. Digitalization technologies: the evolution of smart networks / Günter Knieps -- 3. Digitalizing telecommunications: innovation, complexity and diversity in the internet ecosystem / Volker Stocker and Günter Knieps -- 4. Digitalization in road projects: toward a more integrated mobility supply / Carlos Oliveira Cruz and Joaquim Miranda Sarmento -- 5. Digitalizing maritime transport: digital innovation as a catalyzer of sustainable transformation / Anastasia Tsvetkova, Magnus Gustafsson and Kim Wikström -- 6. Digitalizing railways: the platform dilemma / Juan Montero -- 7. Digitalizing aviation infrastructure: the role of technology in overcoming fragmentation / Iván László Arnold and Lorenzo Casullo -- 8. Digitalization in the postal and delivery sector: between electronic substitution of letter mail and thriving e-commerce / Christian Jaag -- 9. Digitalization of the electricity infrastructure: a key enabler for the decarbonization and decentralization of the power sector / Nicolò Rossetto and Valerie Reif -- 10. Digitalization in the drinking water sector: towards smart water supply management / Brenda Espinosa Apráez -- 11. Digitalization, efficiency and convergence / Matthias Finger and Juan Montero.