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VisitBritain Annual Review 2013/2014
Posted on: 8 October 2014
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VisitBritain presents its latest annual review.
London development: Building opportunities East of the city
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Examines the property market east of the city of London. As demand for housing grows, four boroughs east of the City of London are set to deliver one in three new homes in the capital.
London Prime Residential Development Pipeline
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This annual review of the prime London residential property market considers the question that developers and investors already active in project delivery are grappling with: “how do I secure the construction capacity needed to get my development built?”
Back to the future: 60 years of housing policy (DPU60 Dialogues in Development)
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The latest installment of the DPU60 Dialogues in Development lecture series from the Bartlett Development Planning Unit focuses on housing in the global south. Presenters Jorge Fiori, Ruth McLeod (DPU), Patrick Wakely and Ronaldo Ramirez (DPU Associates and former DPU staff members) share their experiences and look to the future.
Reimagining the rural. What’s missing in UK rural policy
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The Centre for Rural Economy was founded as a Newcastle University Research Centre in 1992. It specialises in interdisciplinary social science and applied policy research oriented towards achieving sustainable rural economies and societies in the UK and abroad. This short paper draws on the insight generated through the Centre’s work to provide a snapshot of the current situation in the countryside and how it could be helped to flourish.
What makes a sustainable city?
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A presentation by David Thorpe in Cardiff at the Green City event on Saturday 27 September 2014. He covers 25 aspects of sustainable cities. David is Special Consultant of the Sustainable Cities Collective website. He is author of Energy Management in Buildings, Energy Management in Industry, Sustainable Transport Fuels, Solar Technology, Sustainable Home Refurbishment, Solar Photovoltaics Business Briefing, and much more. His new book, The One Planet Life, is due out in November 2014.
Travel Weekly
Posted on: 8 October 2014
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The digital version of Travel Weekly for 9 October 2014 is available online.
Winning in growth cities 2014/2015
Posted on: 7 October 2014
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This report has been prepared by the Research and Capital Markets teams at Cushman & Wakefield to identify the winning cities in today’s international real estate investment market. The executive summary looks at the largest and fastest growing cities in investment terms and the differences in pricing, as well as demand and activity between sectors. New York retains its title as the world’s largest real estate investment market.
Green growth indicators 2014
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The OECD Green Growth Strategy supports countries in fostering economic growth and development while ensuring that natural assets continue to provide the resources and environmental services on which well-being relies. Policies that promote green growth need to be founded on a good understanding of the determinants of green growth and need to be supported with appropriate indicators to monitor progress and gauge results. This book updates the 2011 Towards Green Growth: Monitoring progress. It presents the OECD framework for monitoring progress towards green growth and a selection of updated indicators that illustrate the progress that OECD countries have made since the 1990s.
Competence in construction
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A new Council governing a new approach to skills and training is a key proposal in this report, commissioned by the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) to fulfil part of the Action Plan in the industrial strategy for construction, Construction 2025. According to the CITB, the report aims to “help the industry with its thinking about what competence is and means, and how it is assessed and recorded.
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