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The State of China’s Cities 2012/2013
Posted on: 18 March 2013
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This is a collection of contributions from UNHabitat, China Science Centre of International Eurasian Academy of Sciences, China Association of Mayors and Chinese Society of Urban Planning. This publication captures new initiatives taken by the central and local governments of China to make the life of rural migrants equitable to those of urban residents in terms of security of employment, education, pension, medical care and housing; build 36 million flats for low income families in cities between 2011 to 2015; consolidate institutions for disaster reduction and prevention; expand poverty reduction programmes in rural China; and build and demonstrate low-carbon and ecological cities and communities.
Pinpoint: sustainability resources, training and tools
Posted on: 15 March 2013
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Launched in early March 2013 Pinpoint is an independent, free to access online platform. It points built environment professionals towards the best available resources to help make projects, organisations and products as sustainable as possible. Covering all sustainability topics, right across the built environment, it also provides peer reviews from industry professionals and allows users to upload resources themselves.
RICS Construction Policy
Posted on: 15 March 2013
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The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has published a policy paper which outlines the urgent action required to support the struggling construction industry in the UK.
Supporting communities in neighbourhood planning 2012-15
Posted on: 15 March 2013
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The government has awarded a contract to Locality in partnership with the Royal Town Planning Institute, Planning Aid England and partners to deliver a new £9.5 million, 2-year programme to support communities to progress their neighbourhood development plans and neighbourhood development orders. This factsheet provides further information about the programme.
Cities’ advice for sustainable housing
Posted on: 15 March 2013
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The URBACT CASH (Cities Action for Sustainable Housing) project has focused on sustainable renovation of social and affordable housing. The partner cities of the project have prepared a short guide. It does not describe the latest technologies available for energy efficient renovation, but rather covers all the other often overlooked aspects, which are critical for fighting fuel poverty, such as energy efficient renovation allowing the low income tenants to stay and low income owners to invest, cost reduction and optimization of the work through the association of stakeholders during the critical phases of the process creating synergies, building efficiency secured through the appropriate behavior resulting from empowerment. The guide has mostly been designed for cities and gives, for each topic, the state-of-the-art, key issues, in particular, barriers, gaps and solutions, and provides a set of successful examples from partners cities and it presents CASH project’s recommendations in the form of a declaration or resolution to industry partners.
This is a village with no facilities beyond raw security
Posted on: 15 March 2013
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In his latest column, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs discusses why gated communities are “becoming the default setting in towns and cities around the world” and asks whether it matters who owns the land beneath our feet. The article and comments are available online.
Making cities resilient: From awareness to implementation
Posted on: 15 March 2013
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The latest issue of the International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment is a special issue entitled Making cities resilient: From awareness to implementation. This stemmed from the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) campaign on Making Cities Resilient. To celebrate, the journal is currently free to access. This free access runs until 31st March 2013. Simply log in to the table of contents using the following access details: Username: IJDRBE, Password: emerald
Tourism statistics: summer season occupancy
Posted on: 15 March 2013
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This article analyses the tourism trends of the 2012 summer season (June to September) in the European Union (EU) Member States and EFTA countries. In terms of nights spent at hotels and similar accommodation establishments, tourism recorded positive growth rates in most countries, compared with the same period in 2011.
Distribution of carbon emissions in the UK: Implications for domestic energy policy
Posted on: 14 March 2013
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The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has published a report which examines how carbon emissions are distributed across households in Great Britain and the implications for energy and climate change policy. This project uses advanced modelling techniques to look at: the distribution of carbon emissions, from energy consumed in the home and through personal travel by car, public transport and aviation, across households in Great Britain; the impact of existing Government energy and climate policies on consumer energy bills and household emissions in England; and the potential for an alternative approach to reducing emissions in the domestic sector through a wide-scale retrofit of the housing stock.
Sanctuary in the city? Urban displacement and vulnerability in the Gaza Strip
Posted on: 14 March 2013
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Since 2010 the Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) has been carrying out a series of studies on urban displacement. This multi-year research project, supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, explores the phenomenon of displacement in the urban environment and the implications and challenges it poses for humanitarian action. Through field research in eight urban centres in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, the study aims to consider the reality of life for displaced populations in urban areas, investigate the policy and operational challenges that confront national and international stakeholders when responding to the needs of urban internally displaced people and refugees, and offer recommendations for strengthening support to these populations. The latest report looks at internal displacement over the past ten years in Gaza.
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