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Housing the Nation
Posted on: 11 June 2012
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The Local Government Association has launched a Housing the Nation campaign which seeks to persuade government of the need to give councils greater freedoms and financial control over house building.
Parades to be proud of: Strategies to support local shops
Posted on: 11 June 2012
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This good practice and guidance brings together strategies that people have used to improve parades of shops in their own areas that might be useful in other locations.
Parades of shops: Towards an understanding of performance and prospects
Posted on: 11 June 2012
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Existing research makes little reference to the performance of retail and service activities at the level of neighbourhood parades. This research seeks to build a picture – for the first time – of some of the key facts relating to neighbourhood shopping parades, highlighting common themes and good practice.
Cities, health and well-being
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The 2011 Urban Age Hong Kong conference, organized by the London School of Economics and Political Science and the Alfred Herrhausen Society in partnership with the University of Hong Kong, brought together over 170 planners, architects, sociologists, medical doctors, public health experts and economists from 36 cities and 22 countries to help identify the routes through which new meanings, methods and interventions for health and well-being might be developed for greater effect in today’s cities. This report provides one entry point into the conference discussions, in addition to the videos, presentations and publications already available online.
Visit London’s leisure tourism marketing campaigns: economic impact evaluations
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This paper estimates the economic impacts of leisure marketing campaigns conducted by Visit London in North America, Europe and Australia for London and the UK. This research enhances the methodology originally developed in Working Paper 46, refining both the assessment of the economic benefits of Visit London activity as well as the costs (both direct and indirect) of campaign activity. The enhanced methodology is tested for the first time outside of the North American market.
Acting today for tomorrow: a policy and practice note for climate and disaster resilient development in the pacific islands region
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This policy and practice note presents some analysis and recommendations meant to inform disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) planning across a range of institutions at all levels. It grows out of extensive consultations with countries, regional organizations, and donors and other development partners, and it is addressed primarily to high-level policymakers and decision makers within them.
Measurement for management: CDP Cities 2012 Global Report
Posted on: 11 June 2012
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The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) has issued a report which contains analysis by technical and management support services firm AECOM, presenting a global snapshot of the activities, challenges and opportunities facing cities as a result of climate change. It is based on the carbon and water strategies and actions disclosed to CDP by 73 cities spanning every inhabited continent. The report also contains a special focus on the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40), a network of the world’s largest cities working to reduce urban carbon emissions and accelerate climate change adaptation.
From field to fork: The value of England’s food webs
Posted on: 11 June 2012
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A new national report from the Campaign to Protect Rural England finds that despite their critical importance to the health of our high streets, local economies and much loved landscapes, local food networks are under-recognised and poorly supported. Details of individual local food networks is also available.
Healthy design, creative safety: Approaches to health and safety teaching and learning in undergraduate schools of architecture
Posted on: 11 June 2012
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Health and safety teaching should be integrated into design projects to be most effective, rather than taught as an abstract set of rules in isolation, according to new research published into the teaching of health and safety to undergraduate students of architecture. The report was produced on behalf of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) by the University of Sheffield.
The growth of in-work Housing Benefit claimants: Evidence and policy implications
Posted on: 1 June 2012
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This research analyses the growth of Housing Benefit claimants numbers in Great Britain in 2010 and 2011. Particular attention is paid to the rapid growth in the number of in-work Housing Benefit claimants. The research also provides a brief review of the factors that could be leading to a change in the financial position of these households which means that they are claiming Housing Benefit to help cover their housing costs.
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