| This thesis defines urban infrastructure and discusses its importance on the economy as a whole. Examples of the sums of money required to rehabilitate the infrastructure at the international, national and local levels is discussed. The current management and budgeting practices in several Canadian cities are reviewed.;The objectives of this thesis are: (1) to define issues in the management of infrastructure, including the need to view the worth of infrastructure as an asset, (2) to describe an approach for establishing the minimum funding levels required for supporting strategies and programs, and (3) to report the concept of resource allocation under conditions of intersectoral conflicts.;An approach is suggested for establishing minimum funding levels per sector by use of a "Recapitalization Equation". Several examples demonstrating the accuracy of the equation, as a planning model at the international, national, regional and local level, are given.;An equilibrium equation is suggested which relates the Recapitalization Equation to sector needs defined by traditional methods.;An overall infrastructure index is discussed which provides a rough index of the "state of the nation".;A master framework for the budget cycle is presented. |
