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Colonial and postcolonial urban planning in Africa. Lisbon, 5-6 September 2013
Posted on: 7 January 2014
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This conference aimed to examine the history of colonial and post-colonial urban planning in Africa. Abstracts of paper presented are available online.
Amazonia Security Agenda: Strengthening the water, energy, food and health security nexus in the region and beyond
Posted on: 3 January 2014
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In a new report, the Global Canopy Programme and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, argues that growing threats to Amazonia’s water, energy, food and health security will be multiplied in coming decades by climate change, creating severe risks for people, governments and economies across South America. It calls for a new security agenda for Amazonia and its countries. One that focuses not only on national security in a traditional sense, but acts to strengthen the fundamental underpinnings of a flourishing society: sustained access to water, energy, food and good health for all.
Urban development in a changing world. Hanoi, 12 February – 12 April 2013
Posted on: 3 January 2014
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The 37th Congress of the International Urban Development Association (INTA) provided an opportunity for Vietnamese planners to get more insights into some international good planning practices that may assist decision-making processes at a national and local level in Vietnam. Presentations are available online.
Urban Low Emission Development Strategies (Urban-LEDS)
Posted on: 11 December 2013
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The Urban-LEDS project, funded by the European Commission, and implemented by UN-Habitat and ICLEI, has the objective of enhancing the transition to low emission urban development in emerging economy countries by offering selected local governments in Brazil, India, Indonesia and South Africa a comprehensive methodological framework (the GreenClimateCities methodology) to integrate low-carbon strategies into all sectors of urban planning and development.
Urban development with climate co-benefits: Aligning climate, environmental and other development goals in cities
Posted on: 9 December 2013
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This report highlights a number of successful initiatives that improved regional urban sustainability while also addressing other local problems, thus achieving co-benefits. The report and cases presented here not only detail the magnitude of the co-benefits that certain sectors achieved, but also provide insights into the conditions, which enabled local co-benefits to continue to evolve. They provide ideas on how positive changes can be attained as well as an understanding on how cities can generate solutions that have large, short and long-term positive benefits in terms of climate change mitigation and how this approach can be effectively embedded into local policy settings to contribute to cities’ ability to generate co-benefits at local level.
The role of natural resources in disarmament, demobilization and reintegration: Addressing risks and seizing opportunities
Posted on: 9 December 2013
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Natural resources, such as land, forests and minerals, can help create jobs, rebuild economic livelihoods and reintegrate former combatants in war-torn countries, but only if they are managed properly, according to a new United Nations report.
For town and country: A new approach to urban planning in Kenya
Posted on: 6 December 2013
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In the post-independence era, urban planning was deployed as a tool for “modernisation” in Kenya. But in the 1980s and 1990s modernisation was supplanted by autocracy and straitened economic circumstances. In turn, planning became a means for securing control, exclusion and further enrichment of political and economic elites redolent of the colonial era. Legislation based on outdated and inappropriate models such as the UK’s 1947 Town and Country Planning Act was routinely used to carry out mass evictions and demolitions in informal settlements in Kenya. By the end of the 20th century, the planning profession had become irrelevant or discredited to all but its few beneficiaries. In this document, Professor Peter Ngau describes in detail how he and colleagues at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning (DURP) at the University of Nairobi, and other institutions, have sought to revitalise the education and training that planners receive and encourage the adoption of more progressive approaches among planning professionals. Curricula reform, research and innovation, close links with other planning schools in Africa, and working partnerships with civil society organisations in informal settlements are the bedrock of the effort to ensure that Kenya’s future urban planners are equipped to manage rapid urban transformation.
Urban climate resilience: A review of the methodologies adopted under the ACCCRN initiative in Indian cities
Posted on: 5 December 2013
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Cities across the world have started recognising the need to address urban climate vulnerabilities. In Asia, the role of the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN), a nine-year initiative (2008-2017) supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, has been significant. Over the years, ACCCRN has worked in ten cities in four Asian countries (India, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam) on developing and demonstrating effective processes and practices for addressing urban climate vulnerabilities. This Working Paper aims to document and analyse the several methodologies adopted in the seven Indian ACCCRN cities: Surat, Indore, Gorakhpur, Shimla, Bhubaneswar, Mysore, Guwahati. The paper analyses these methodologies and the overall process adopted in each of these cities for its potential for replication in other cities in India, and brings out the inherent challenges, gaps and opportunities in achieving this.
Saving lives with sustainable transport: Traffic safety impact of sustainable transport policies
Posted on: 5 December 2013
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This document reviews evidence of the safety benefits of sustainable transport, with a particular focus on the applicability of these findings to cities in developing countries. Where the information is available, it also provides estimates of the magnitude of safety benefits that have been recorded for specific projects.
The favela speaks to the world
Posted on: 2 December 2013
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This article considers the impact of community-based media on communities in Rio de Janeiro.
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