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Cities 46 (2015) 67–75 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Cities journal homepage: www.else /locate/cities Strategic planning of urban infrastructure for environmental sustainability: Understanding the past to intervene for the future Shirin Malekpour ⇑, Rebekah R. Brown, Fjalar J. de Haan School of Social Sciences, Water for Liveability Centre and Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities, Monash University, Victoria 3800, Australia a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Urban infrastructure systems have long lifespans and influence the state of the environment for extended Received 2 November 2014 periods of time. Processes of strategic planning for urban infrastructure are thus instrumental to materi- Received in revised form 15 January 2015 alizing environmental sustainability visions. Continued investments in infrastructure with adverse envi- Accepted 7 May 2015 ronmental impacts imply that sustainability priorities are not embedded in planning processes, as these processes tend to follow the path-dependent legacy of older planning paradigms. This study identifies the cognitive framings that underpin the evolution of strategic planning over the last century, to reveal the Keywords: path-dependent attributes of strategic planning thinking that undermine alternative solutions. To do Strategic planning Public infrastructure that, a scoping stud