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Managing the impact of Housing Benefit reform
Posted on: 1 November 2012
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The National Audit Office has published a report on how the Department of Work and Pensions is placed to tackle the significant challenge of implementing the reforms to housing benefit.
The “French District sustainable urban neighbourhood in Tubigen, Germany
Posted on: 1 November 2012
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Tubingen’s “French district”, in German “Französisches Viertel“, is an urban brownfield development project. A 60-hectare military wasteland was converted into a dense urban neighbourhood with mixed urban functions. In a continuing development process, a new living space for 6,000 inhabitants and 2,500 jobs were created. An imaginative urban design enables the combination of living, supply, commerce and light forms of industry. Further on, the neighbourhood is characterised by low energy housing and an innovative mobility concept. Its main policy ideas are to generate fewer trips, shorten their distances and shift traffic to efficient modes of transportation.
Urban Planning and Economic Development News Magazine
Posted on: 1 November 2012
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The Urban Planning and Economic Development News Magazine provides educational information and services in urban planning and environmental conservation in a multi media format to an interconnected global community that will both enable individuals and communities to adapt to new holistic techniques and solutions to resolve existing and future urban and environmental issues and foster economic and sustainable development. The Vision is to share a full range of interdisciplinary, professional knowledge with community leaders, professional planners, businesses and interested citizens having a commitment to operational excellence in the public and private sectors in a multi media format.
Trends in real estate private equity
Posted on: 1 November 2012
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Private equity investment in real estate is slowing due to stagnating global capital markets, according to a new report from Ernst & Young. Fewer private equity players are able to secure bank financing, which has hampered transaction activity this year.
The relevance of “resilience”
Posted on: 1 November 2012
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The paper argues that current ways of portraying resilience are not useful as a guide in diagnosing people’s vulnerability, and are also too vague to help designing any policies or programmes for improving resilience, because they allow anything to be called ‘resilience building’.
Castles in the air
Posted on: 30 October 2012
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Released by RSA, the UK’s largest commercial insurer, and the Centre for Economics and Business Research, this is described as a unique study of the future of UK commercial real estate (CRE) construction. It shows that the recession has led to a peak-to-trough decline of 42 per cent in CRE construction output, which closely follows GDP. In fact, between 2007 and 2011 the value of CRE construction activity fell by as much as 32 per cent from £41 billion to £28 billion. Looking forward, this figure is predicted to drop again in 2012 to £27 billion and is not expected to return to positive growth until 2014, when only a modest 0.3 per cent rise is anticipated – far below the rate of growth currently reported on a national level.
London, the (n) ever-changing city
Posted on: 30 October 2012
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A 17-strong international tutor team of practising architects, researchers in architecture and urbanism, artists, and linguists are leading this years’ Urban Transcripts workshop on the city, to be held on 3-9 December 2012. Focusing on London’s actual problematics, combining on-site visits, urban explorations, studio work and social events, the workshop is an interdisciplinary exercise in understanding the urban condition and working towards collaborative solutions. The workshop is open both to students and non-students; it will be of particular interest to students past their 2nd year of study, postgraduate students, and recent graduates, in disciplines related to the study of the city and urban intervention; notably architecture, urbanism, planning, geography, the social sciences, and the arts. Further details of the event, together with listings of reference, can be found online.
Searching European Urban Knowledge Network
Posted on: 30 October 2012
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Thanks to a joint initiative between URBACT and the European Urban Knowledge Network (EUKN), visitors to both websites have access to a wide collection of relevant documents and resources on sustainable urban development, such as research that has been done on this topic, practices from cities throughout Europe and interviews with experts.
Greenhouse gas emission trends and projections in Europe 2012
Posted on: 30 October 2012
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This report from the European Environment Agency presents an assessment of the progress projected or achieved by the European Union (EU), its Member States and other EEA member countries towards achieving their greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets for the first commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol and for 2020 under EU unilateral commitments.
Approximated EU GHG Inventory Early Estimates for 2011
Posted on: 30 October 2012
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The European Commission has released an annual report detailing progress in 2011 towards achieving the EU target under the Kyoto Protocol. It reports that a majority of emissions reductions occurred in the residential and commercial sectors, in part due to a mild winter, and notes a 47 million ton decrease in emissions from EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) sectors. The report also underscores the increasing share of renewable energy in total energy consumption. It includes sectoral results for energy, industrial processes, agriculture, waste and other source categories in addition to examining uncertainties, methodologies and data sources, and member State GHG emissions.
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