Urban planning for city leaders

Posted on: 25 September 2012
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The UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) has launched a guide which aims to support urban planning good practice among local decision makers and leaders in developing and emerging economies. The guide includes ten practical “how to” chapters designed to offer advice and guide decisions on topics such as building resilience and reducing climate risks, creating partnerships and measuring impacts. Each chapter features city case studies describing initial challenges, adopted solutions and results.

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International tourism in London: Results for London from the International Passenger Survey 2011

Posted on: 25 September 2012
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The Office for National Statistics has released ‘Travel Trends’ outlining results from the International Passenger Survey 2011 and supplementary data sources. This Current Issues Note presents a brief analysis of volume and value statistics from this latest annual release on international tourism data for London covering 2011.

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Shaping Neighbourhoods: Children and Young People’s Play and Informal Recreation Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG)

Posted on: 25 September 2012
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This document updates and replaces the Mayor’s SPG on Providing for Children and Young People’s Play and Informal Recreation published in 2008. The guidance supports the implementation of the London Plan Policy 3.6 on ‘Children and Young People’s Play and Informal Recreation Facilities,’ and other policies on shaping neighbourhoods (Chapter 7 of the London Plan), in particular Policy 7.1 on Lifetime Neighbourhoods.

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Land for Industry and Transport: Supplementary Planning Guidance

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This document sets out guidance to supplement the policies in the 2011 London Plan (LP) relating to land for industrial type activities and transport. The SPG provides advice on how to implement these policies, in particular LP Policy 2.17 on Strategic Industrial Locations, Policy 4.4 on Managing Industrial Land and Premises; and Policy 6.2 on Providing Public Transport Capacity and Safeguarding Land for Transport.

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DC: The walk up wake up call

Posted on: 25 September 2012
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This research takes a deep look at Washington, D.C., a national pioneer in walkable urban places, to identify where development has and will take place, and the economic and social impact it will have. The report argues that there is a game-changing shift underway in real estate, with walkable urban places and projects driving tomorrow’s real estate industry and the economy. The report also considers what actions are needed to take advantage of these market trends.

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Suburban Birmingham: Spaces & Places, 1880-1960

Posted on: 24 September 2012
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This is a research project led by University of Birmingham academics working in partnership with curators from Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, and archivists and librarians from Birmingham Archives & Heritage, and University of Birmingham Special Collections. Together, they have used each others’ extensive collections to research and recount the history of Birmingham’s south-western suburbs. The researchers have explored how public and private spaces were built, used, thought about, and represented over an 80 year period of great social, economic, political and cultural change. The project was the first to focus on the forms and functions, and experiences of living in, a variety of suburban public, semi-public, and private spaces in Birmingham. As such, the project will offer valuable research resources to academics and students interested in suburban and urban histories.

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Refurbishment & Development Activity Report

Posted on: 24 September 2012
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The amount of development and refurbishment activity in the capital has increased over the last twelve months, according to a report from BNP Paribas Real Estate.

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Sustainable design and construction: Good practice guidance

Posted on: 24 September 2012
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This guidance has been produced for use by local planning authorities in England, together with landowners, developers, businesses, town and parish councils, community groups and others. Its aim is to assist plan-making and development management in support of local planning authorities’ statutory duty to contribute to the achievement of sustainable development, of which sustainable design and construction is an integral part.

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Sustainability Exchange

Posted on: 24 September 2012
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For the first time, leading organisations from across the further and higher education sector have joined forces to create the Sustainability Exchange. Combining resources and experience from 23 of the country’s top sustainable development and tertiary education bodies, the Sustainability Exchange is the UK’s first centralised information portal and online community for the sector, sharing a wealth of information that is available to everyone.

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Teaching and learning for a sustainable future

Posted on: 24 September 2012
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UNESCO has produced a multimedia teacher education programme which provides professional development for student teachers, teachers, curriculum developers, education policy makers, and authors of educational materials. The modules are divided into four themes: Curriculum rationale;  Sustainable development across the curriculum;  Contemporary issues; and Teaching and learning strategies.

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