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Road investment strategy
Posted on: 1 December 2014
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The government has announced proposals to spend £15 billion to increase the capacity and condition of England’s roads. These plans are published the first ever ‘Road investment strategy’, which has been developed to keep the population connected and the economy growing.
Gentrification in Berlin
Posted on: 1 December 2014
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A widely felt dissatisfaction with and anger about gentrification exists among Berlin’s residents. Furious debates about the touristification of residential neighbourhoods and massive protests against rent increases are just some of the ways by which this is expressed. This blog argues that outside the Anglo-American context, there are few cities where gentrification is as contested as it is in Berlin. Conversely, gentrification arguably forms a key component of Berlin’s urban growth strategies inspired by the so-called promises of the creative city and city marketing strategies aiming to promote the city’s image as hip, creative, and ‘poor but sexy’.
The viability of sponsored transport schemes
Posted on: 1 December 2014
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This is the London Assembly Budget and Performance Committee’s second report into Transport for London’s and the Mayor’s, pursuit of commercial sponsorship of parts of London’s transport services.
What is urban design?
Posted on: 1 December 2014
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The author of this blog was asked to define Urban Design and Master-planning in under 250 words each.
Istanbul and cities of the Arabian peninsula
Posted on: 1 December 2014
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This issue of the journal City (Vol.18 Issue 6, 2014) contains a number of articles relating to the following two themes:
Assembling Istanbul: Buildings and bodies in a world city
These articles seek to explore the production of urban politics and experience in contemporary Istanbul in light of a growing body of work that conceptualizes cities as urban assemblages.
Roundtable on Arabian peninsulas
The authors of these articles focus on the social and geographical margins of Arabian Peninsula cities. Suburbs are not the antithesis of the city: here, as in countless other cities across Asia, Africa and the Americas, suburbs are those spaces where urban growth happens, the vast inter-zone where promoters, politicians, migrant workers, homeowners, squatters and traffickers produce and reproduce the city daily.
Megaprojects, settlement dynamics and the sustainability challenge in metropolitan cities
Posted on: 1 December 2014
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Although not a recent phenomenon, megaproject building is currently enjoying renewed popularity in large cities across the world. Policy-makers are undertaking major investments in the form of large-scale urban development projects to position their metropolitan cities on a global scale and to scale-up urban infrastructure to meet basic needs of housing and transportation. The aim of this special issue of the journal Habitat International (Vol.45 Part 3, January 2015 is to examine this trend, with a focus on four cities: Cape Town, Durban, Delhi, and Lima. On the basis of empirical case material, the articles analyse the challenges that megaprojects throw up for urban sustainability and discuss the peculiar issues facing cities characterized by extreme social inequalities, limited mobilisation of community groups and growing pressure on governments to implement neoliberal urban development policies.
UN Climate Change Conference (COP20): Background research
Posted on: 1 December 2014
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The UN Climate Change Conference (COP20) in Lima, Peru (1-12 December 2014) aims to settle the key elements of a global climate deal to be finalised in Paris 2015, when the deadline for a new deal runs out. The ESRC STEPS Centre and its partners around the world have been working on policy-relevant research in the places at the sharp edge of climate change, where it is having a huge effect on people’s lives and livelihoods. This page highlights a selection of resources, relevant to the COP20 negotiations, on the impact of climate change on poor and marginalised people, at the intersections of intersections of energy, agriculture, water and health.
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