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Suburban Birmingham: Spaces & Places, 1880-1960
Posted on: 24 September 2012
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This is a research project led by University of Birmingham academics working in partnership with curators from Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, and archivists and librarians from Birmingham Archives & Heritage, and University of Birmingham Special Collections. Together, they have used each others’ extensive collections to research and recount the history of Birmingham’s south-western suburbs. The researchers have explored how public and private spaces were built, used, thought about, and represented over an 80 year period of great social, economic, political and cultural change. The project was the first to focus on the forms and functions, and experiences of living in, a variety of suburban public, semi-public, and private spaces in Birmingham. As such, the project will offer valuable research resources to academics and students interested in suburban and urban histories.
Refurbishment & Development Activity Report
Posted on: 24 September 2012
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The amount of development and refurbishment activity in the capital has increased over the last twelve months, according to a report from BNP Paribas Real Estate.
Sustainable design and construction: Good practice guidance
Posted on: 24 September 2012
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This guidance has been produced for use by local planning authorities in England, together with landowners, developers, businesses, town and parish councils, community groups and others. Its aim is to assist plan-making and development management in support of local planning authorities’ statutory duty to contribute to the achievement of sustainable development, of which sustainable design and construction is an integral part.
Sustainability Exchange
Posted on: 24 September 2012
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For the first time, leading organisations from across the further and higher education sector have joined forces to create the Sustainability Exchange. Combining resources and experience from 23 of the country’s top sustainable development and tertiary education bodies, the Sustainability Exchange is the UK’s first centralised information portal and online community for the sector, sharing a wealth of information that is available to everyone.
Teaching and learning for a sustainable future
Posted on: 24 September 2012
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UNESCO has produced a multimedia teacher education programme which provides professional development for student teachers, teachers, curriculum developers, education policy makers, and authors of educational materials. The modules are divided into four themes: Curriculum rationale; Sustainable development across the curriculum; Contemporary issues; and Teaching and learning strategies.
Better Buildings Partnership iPad Apps
Posted on: 24 September 2012
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The Better Buildings Partnership (BBP) is an exclusive collaboration of London’s leading commercial property owners and allied organisations, supported by the Mayor of London and the Greater London Authority. Their aim is to develop solutions to improve the sustainability of London’s existing commercial building stock and achieve substantial CO2 savings in support of the Mayor’s target of 60 per cent by 2025. The BBP is in the process of converting a number of its Toolkits into iPad apps. The following are available to download from the iTunes app store:
The BBP Transactional Agents Toolkit app provides sales and letting agents with concise, clear information on the key sustainability features of commercial buildings. Transactional agents sit at the heart of activity in the property industry as the brokers who match supply of space with potential occupiers across the markets, and this Toolkit plays a fundamental role in helping to push the green agenda forward. It will also help to improve an agent’s service to clients, generating reputational and competitive advantages. Whilst aimed at sales and letting agents, the Toolkit will prove useful for anyone interested in the sustainability of commercial buildings.
The BBP Managing Agents Sustainability Toolkit app sets out a full range of sustainability services which a commercial property owner should consider requiring its Managing Agent to provide and Managing Agents should consider providing for their clients.
Knowledge brokerage for environmentally sustainable sanitation
Posted on: 24 September 2012
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Knowledge brokerage is the activity and the process to facilitate knowledge and technology to move from one place to another, in order to help individuals and organisations learn, innovate and improve. This report summarises the main findings pertaining to knowledge brokerage in the EU-funded project BESSE (Brokering Environmentally Sustainable Sanitation for Europe). The project examined how to facilitate innovation in the sanitation sector to make it more sustainable’. BESSE also studied different innovations in environmentally sustainable sanitation, which can be seen in the resource file on the BESSE website.
Social Housing Lettings & Sales in England, 2011/12
Posted on: 24 September 2012
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This Statistical Release presents official statistics on new lettings and sales of existing social housing stock in England for 2011/12. Statistics on new lettings in England are given for both local authorities and private registered social housing providers; and on sales of social housing in England for private registered providers. Information about the tenancy or sale, the tenants or buyers, and the property, are collected each time there is a new letting or sale transaction. Lets of general needs and supported social housing are collected, and, from 2011/12, providers have also been asked to report on affordable lettings. Social housing sales include sales under Right to Buy, Preserved Right to Buy, Right to Acquire, Social HomeBuy, other outright or shared equity sales to tenants, and sales of existing stock to the private sector.
State of World Cities 2012/2013
Posted on: 24 September 2012
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UN-Habitat has launched the State of World’s Cities Report 2012/2013. Titled The prosperity of cities, the report recommends that those engaged in development work need to explore a more inclusive notion of prosperity and development. What this new edition of State of the World’s Cities shows is that prosperity for all has been compromised by a narrow focus on economic growth. UN-Habitat suggests a fresh approach to prosperity beyond the solely economic emphasis, including other vital dimensions such as quality of life, adequate infrastructures, equity and environmental sustainability. The report proposes a new tool, the City Prosperity Index, together with a conceptual matrix, the Wheel of Prosperity, both of which are meant to assist decision makers to design clear policy interventions. The report advocates for the need of cities to enhance the public realm, expand public goods and consolidate rights to the ‘commons’ for all as a way to expand prosperity. This comes in response to the observed trend of enclosing or restricting these goods and commons in enclaves of prosperity, or depleting them through unsustainable use.
Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for Local Authority Major Schemes
Posted on: 21 September 2012
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The Department for Transport has published guidelines on the level of monitoring and evaluation it requires Local Authority Major Scheme promoters to carry out for ‘Supported Pool’ and ‘Development Pool’ Local Authority Major Schemes. Monitoring and evaluating the investment in Major Schemes is important to assess whether the programme has delivered value for money and to ensure that lessons are learnt for further investment decisions.
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