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Real London lives
Posted on: 20 November 2014
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g15 has commissioned Real London Lives, a major three-year longitudinal study from the University of York. Its latest report presents the findings of in-depth qualitative face-to-face interviews with working-age housing association residents from across the capital. The report confronts many of the stereotypes attached to people living in social housing.
China rethinks urbanization
Posted on: 20 November 2014
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The November 2014 issue of Planning, the magazine of the American Planning Association, includes this article which considers the importance of China’s first national urbanization plan.
Measuring the prosperity of cities
Posted on: 20 November 2014
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The objective of this Special Edition of Habitat International (Vol.45 Part 1, January 2015) is to advance a dialogue that will promote the development of a more robust and useful measure of the prosperity of cities.
Zira Island: Central Asia’s first carbon neutral master plan in Baku, Azerbaijan
Posted on: 20 November 2014
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Zira, off the coast of Azerbaijan is considered to be one of the few ‘eco-island’ initiatives around. The plan to develop, as an island ‘entirely independent of external resources, and ‘a model of future development in the Caucasus region’.
Hosting mega events: Londoners’ support of the 2012 Olympics
Posted on: 20 November 2014
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Mega-event successes depend considerably on the host community’s support, even if their planning and development allows little input from local residents. This article in the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management (Vol.21 December 2014) examines the use of a structural model to access key factors of residents’ perceptions for the 2012 London Olympics. The findings reveal that community support is influenced by perceptions of positive and negative impacts, and of community participation. They also indicate the importance of the Olympics’ perceived positive and negative impacts, whilst the willingness of support is directly and indirectly connected with the community’s participation in decision making.
Sustainable freight transport
Posted on: 20 November 2014
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The topic of sustainable freight transport was considered at the 13th World Conference on Transport Research in Rio de Janiero in July 2013. Seven of the nine papers published in this issue of Research in Transportation Business and Management (Vol.12, October 2014) were initially presented at WCTR 13. They offer widely differing perspectives on freight sustainability, though have a couple of features in common. First, like most of the previous literature on the subject, they focus on the environmental dimension of sustainability. Although they do not explicitly adopt the broader ‘triple bottom line’ approach, many of the measures they discuss can also yield economic and social benefits. Second, they are all based on European research and experience, possibly reflecting the greater priority given to green freight issues in government and business circles in Europe and the availability of EU-funding to support research in this field.
EuroPHit
Posted on: 20 November 2014
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EuroPHit aims to significantly increase the quality and energy efficiency of perhaps the most common type of refurbishment: retrofits conducted gradually, over a period of years. The EuroPHit project is co-funded within the European Commissions’s Intelligent Energy Europe programme.
Social media for events
Posted on: 19 November 2014
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The complete and free resource to successfully implement Social Media at Events. 130 pages of research, tools, tips and resources to start using social media at your event.
Architecture and the welfare state
Posted on: 19 November 2014
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Thirty golden years of the Welfare State (1945-1975) and 30 years of socio-political objectives and policies expressed in the built form, principally housing, are covered in this new book. This review describes the book as the first study to look so closely at these and the extent of the power and influence wielded by architects in this process. The study covers Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK and some former colonial territories in the form of 15 essays, each from a scholar in architecture and planning, edited by three of these authors.
Institute for Transportation and Development Policy
Posted on: 19 November 2014
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The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy works with cities worldwide to bring about sustainable transport solutions that cut greenhouse gas emissions, reduce poverty, and improve the quality of urban life. A regular blog is also available.
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