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Travel Market Report
Posted on: 9 December 2013
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Travel Market Report is an online business publication that serves as an independent forum and voice for retail travel sellers around the globe. We provide in-depth coverage and analysis of news and trends affecting leisure and corporate travel agents, along with practical business advice and insights into key growth markets.
Millennium Stadium Economic Report
Posted on: 6 December 2013
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An independent report into the economic impact of the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales, has revealed that it generates more than ÂŁ130 million a year for the city and nation and sustains more than 2,500 permanent jobs. The report carried out by Econactive Ltd for the Welsh Rugby Union concluded that the financial benefits delivered by events at the Stadium are highly significant within the context of Welsh tourism.
One Wales: One planet. The Sustainable Development Annual Report 2012-2013
Posted on: 6 December 2013
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This report explains how the Welsh Government’s Sustainable Development Scheme has been implemented between April 2012 and March 2013.
The Green Rethink
Posted on: 6 December 2013
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Green Rethink brought together some of the foremost architects engaged with green building to share their thoughts on energy and the environment. The Architects Journal invited 33 speakers to address the 156 delegates to the inaugural Footprint Live conference: The Green Rethink, in association with Lafarge Tarmac. Videos from the gathering at the Royal College of Physicians will be viewable soon.
For town and country: A new approach to urban planning in Kenya
Posted on: 6 December 2013
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In the post-independence era, urban planning was deployed as a tool for “modernisation” in Kenya. But in the 1980s and 1990s modernisation was supplanted by autocracy and straitened economic circumstances. In turn, planning became a means for securing control, exclusion and further enrichment of political and economic elites redolent of the colonial era. Legislation based on outdated and inappropriate models such as the UK’s 1947 Town and Country Planning Act was routinely used to carry out mass evictions and demolitions in informal settlements in Kenya. By the end of the 20th century, the planning profession had become irrelevant or discredited to all but its few beneficiaries. In this document, Professor Peter Ngau describes in detail how he and colleagues at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning (DURP) at the University of Nairobi, and other institutions, have sought to revitalise the education and training that planners receive and encourage the adoption of more progressive approaches among planning professionals. Curricula reform, research and innovation, close links with other planning schools in Africa, and working partnerships with civil society organisations in informal settlements are the bedrock of the effort to ensure that Kenya’s future urban planners are equipped to manage rapid urban transformation.
Funding and structures for local economic growth
Posted on: 6 December 2013
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The National Audit has published a report which argues that it has not yet been demonstrated that funding mechanisms introduced by the government for supporting local economic growth are capable of delivering value for money.
Autumn Statement: RICS response
Posted on: 6 December 2013
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Response from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors on the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement with emphasis on the impact on the property market.
Shrinking Den Helder: The Dutch Detroit at sea?
Posted on: 6 December 2013
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Many urban and regional development theories focus on the growth of urban regions. But what about regions that shrink? In recent years, an increasing number of urban planners have concerned themselves with how cities shrink and what should be done about that. This blog entry focuses on a case of urban shrinkage in the Netherlands. Den Helder is a small city (population of 56.739) in the uttermost northern part of the province North Holland in the Netherlands, surrounded by the sea.
Safeguarding and further developing World Heritage Cities
Posted on: 6 December 2013
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This position paper has been written by the World Heritage Cities themselves and gives a clear picture what the World Heritage Status as a cross-cutting topic means for the cities.
The Protocity
Posted on: 6 December 2013
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An international blog by young academics covering urban planning and design, city economics, human geography, and city photography.
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