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Built today, treasured tomorrow: A good practice guide to long-term stewardship
Posted on: 29 January 2014
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The Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) have launched a good practice guide to long term stewardship models, inspired by the garden city principles of community rights, ownership and asset management to create the beautiful, inclusive and sustainable communities of the future. The guide aims to demonstrate how we can ensure that the new parks, community centres, arts centres and other assets of great value to local people created within new developments are well looked after in perpetuity. It sets out tried-and-tested methods of securing a good long-term future for community assets such as parks, community buildings, health centres, local energy sources, and community transport. It also explains how imaginative approaches to funding and management can empower local communities to take control or have a say in the running of local assets.
Social media for better events
Posted on: 29 January 2014
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This video presentation focuses on how to use social media technology for better events.
EMBARQ
Posted on: 29 January 2014
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EMBARQ’s mission is to catalyze and help implement sustainable transport solutions to improve quality of life in cities. Since 2002, the EMBARQ network has expanded to Mexico, Brazil, China, India, Turkey and the Andean Region, collaborating with local transport authorities to reduce pollution, improve public health, and create safe, accessible and attractive urban public spaces. The network employs more than 120 experts in fields ranging from architecture to air quality management; geography to journalism; and sociology to civil and transport engineering.
Community renewable electricity generation: Potential sector growth to 2020
Posted on: 28 January 2014
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An independent report commissioned by the Department of Energy and Climate Change that assesses the potential of Community Energy generation under different scenarios.
Dynamics of colonial urbanism: a view from Israel/Palestine
Posted on: 28 January 2014
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This is a video of a talk by Dr Haim Yacobi, a lecturer in the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University as well as an architect and planner. The term “mixed cities” is widely used in Israel, describing an urban situation in which Jewish and Arab communities occupy the same urban jurisdiction. However, a critical examination questions this terminology that brings to mind integration and mutual membership of society, while reality is controversial. Similar to other cases of ethnic nationalism, a clear spatial and mental division exists between Arabs and Jews in Israel, and hence the occurrence of “mixed” spaces is both exceptional and involuntary. Rather, it has resulted from a historical process during which the Israeli territory, including previously Arab cities, has been profoundly Judaized. In this process, the Palestinian community remaining in Israel following the 1948 war, has become a marginalized and dispossessed minority. Beyond the significant effect of the social and political processes, the ex-Palestinian urban fabric has been dramatically transformed.
In Focus: Chalkidiki, Greece
Posted on: 28 January 2014
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This market snapshot summarizes the key tourism characteristics and developments of the Chalkidiki region of Greece.
Design with the blind in mind
Posted on: 28 January 2014
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What would a city designed for the blind be like? Chris Downey is an architect who went suddenly blind in 2008. In this video, he contrasts life in his San Francisco before and after, and shows how the thoughtful designs that enhance his life now might actually make everyone’s life better, sighted or not.
Green roofs in Toronto
Posted on: 28 January 2014
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Toronto is the first North American city to have a by-law that requires the construction, and delivers standards for green roofs on new developments. The by-law, adopted by the Toronto City Council in 2009, applies to new commercial, institutional, industrial and residential developments with a minimum floor area of 2,000 meters squared, requiring a portion of the roof to be green.
Cities
Posted on: 28 January 2014
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The Guardian has launched a new section devoted to ideas, discussion and predictions about cities all over the planet. This includes a section, Cities back from the brink, which looks at cities around the world that are recovering and rebuilding after a natural disaster.
London events in 2014
Posted on: 28 January 2014
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On the eve of London’s renowned and hugely popular Chinese New Year celebrations, the Mayor Boris Johnson has announced that 2014 will be another world-beating year for major events in the capital.
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