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Thriving or surviving: European Cities Hotel Forecast 2013
Posted on: 14 January 2013
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In this second edition, PricewaterhouseCoopers provide its outlook for 19 of Europe’s most important gateway cities, representing 650,000 hotel rooms and over 85 million international arrivals. The report includes: a review of 2012; the outlook for 2013; the latest trends, issues and challenges for the sector over the next 12 months; the latest economic, travel and supply outlook; and individual city by city forecasts including key hotel KPIs and long term trend data, supply outlook and opportunities in 2013.
‘Fortress Britain’: high security, insecurity and the challenge of preventing harm
Posted on: 11 January 2013
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Secured by Design is a crime-prevention initiative based on the principles of “designing out crime” launched in 1989. This study, published by the New Economics Foundation think-tank, argues that the application of Secured by Design standards can “create very high security environments which can appear threatening”. According to the report, there is “scant evidence” that the spread of gating, CCTV and defensible space strategies create safe, cohesive and trusting communities.
Overseas Travel and Tourism: 3rd quarter 2012
Posted on: 11 January 2013
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The Office for National Statistics has published the latest tourism statistics for the 3rd quarter of 2012, drawn from the International Passenger Survey. This quarter saw the UK host the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympics. Estimates conducted by The Office for National Statistics are that a total of 470,000 overseas residents visited the UK with a primary purpose relating to the Olympics or Paralympics (to watch, work or participate) during this period and a further 215,000 people attended a ticketed Olympics or Paralympics event although their main purpose for visit was not related to the Olympics. Despite this inflow of Olympics-related visits less people visited the UK in quarter 3. The total of 8.9 million visits (for any purpose) to the UK by overseas residents was 3% lower than in the same period in 2011.
Seeds of knowledge: Contributing to climate change solutions
Posted on: 11 January 2013
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The United Nations Environment Programme has published a booklet of 24 case studies from 17 countries on grassroots solutions to the impacts of climate change. With its focus on developing and emerging economies, the publication aims to show that grassroots, community-led responses are already playing an essential role in building resilience to climate change across all regions of the world.
ClimateXChange Adaptation Briefs
Posted on: 11 January 2013
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The ClimateXChange, which provides advice and expertise on climate change-related research, has published five new briefs for better adaptation, written in response to questions raised by the Scottish Government. These include key adaptation concepts as well as looking at adaptation processes.
Cities Today December 2012
Posted on: 11 January 2013
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The latest issue of Cities Today has news and articles on global cities.
Lessons from Germany’s Passivhaus experience
Posted on: 10 January 2013
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This report provides an objective overview of the experience gained to date from Passivhaus in Germany and elsewhere in Europe. It looks at the achievements and the national context that has helped its popularity in Germany, while conversely discusses some of the differences that may hinder volume uptake in the UK. Register to obtain access to the document.
Green cities: using city deals to drive low carbon growth
Posted on: 10 January 2013
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The Green Alliance has published a report which examines the degree to which cities can drive low carbon growth and looks in detail at the city deals process as a means of achieving this. ‘City deals’ have been introduced to unlock the economic potential of cities, transferring power, tools and support from central government. So far, deals have been agreed with the eight core cities, known as ‘wave one’, and a further 20 cities, known as ‘wave two’, are in the running to agree deals by November 2013. The report looks at how wave one cities integrated low carbon ambitions into their deals and makes recommendations about how this can be achieved and embedded more consistently among wave two cities, as they agree their deals in the coming year.
The Brown Review of the Rail Franchising Programme
Posted on: 10 January 2013
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Following the cancellation of the competition to run the InterCity West Coast franchise, the Secretary of State asked Richard Brown, Chairman of Eurostar, to carry out an urgent assessment of the implications of the flaws in the West Coast procurement for the rest of the rail franchising programme. In his independent report, Mr Brown makes a number of recommendations for the future of the rail franchising programme.
Smart cities of the future
Posted on: 9 January 2013
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This article, which appears in an issue of The European Physical Journal Special Topics (Vol.214, November 2012), outlines the rudiments of what constitutes a smart city which the authors define as a city in which ICT is merged with traditional infrastructures, coordinated and integrated using new digital technologies. The authors first sketch their vision defining seven goals which concern: developing a new understanding of urban problems; effective and feasible ways to coordinate urban technologies; models and methods for using urban data across spatial and temporal scales; developing new technologies for communication and dissemination; developing new forms of urban governance and organisation; defining critical problems relating to cities, transport, and energy; and identifying risk, uncertainty, and hazards in the smart city. They also define six scenarios based on new cities badging themselves as smart, older cities regenerating themselves as smart, the development of science parks, tech cities, and technopoles focused on high technologies, the development of urban services using contemporary ICT, the use of ICT to develop new urban intelligence functions, and the development of online and mobile forms of participation. Finally the authors anticipate the paradigm shifts that will occur in this research and define a series of key demonstrators which we believe are important to progressing a science of smart cities.
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