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Evidence and Lessons from Latin America
Posted on: 23 July 2013
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Evidence and Lessons from Latin America (ELLA) is a knowledge sharing and learning platform. ELLA aims to: share knowledge of recent Latin American experiences on selected economic, environmental and governance issues; support learning between Latin American, African and South Asian countries; and provide a networking platform for organisations and individuals to link to Latin America.
The human city. Sao Paulo, Brazil, 4-6 July 2013
Posted on: 15 July 2013
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New Cities Foundation has published an e-book on its annual flagship event, New Cities Summit. The official Summit e-book includes written summaries and videos of all sessions, from keynotes to plenaries and breakouts. It also features the official highlights video of the Summit, and What Works series.
China’s urbanization imperative
Posted on: 11 July 2013
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A video and presentations from McKinsey & Company, exploring China’s huge infrastructure program and the country’s plans to build sustainable urban clusters for hundreds of millions of its people.
Increasing climate change resilience of urban water infrastructure
Posted on: 5 July 2013
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has released a guidance publication, titled ‘Increasing Climate Resilience of Urban Water Infrastructure,’ based on a case study from Wuhan City, China. The guidance focuses on answering questions faced by city planners and managers: what changes might be caused by climate change?; how will these affect services and utilities?; and what can we do now to prepare for them? The guidance is divided into two sections, the first focuses on an approach to increasing climate resilience of urban water infrastructure, the second outlines short-term investment opportunities.
Sector and spatial spillover effects of infrastructure investment: a case study of Bengaluru, India
Posted on: 4 July 2013
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Understanding the impact of public infrastructure spending is imperative to government policy framework in India. This research looks specifically at sectoral and spatial spillover effects in Bangalore, and how infrastructure investment may stimulate investment in other sectors.
China’s great uprooting: Moving 250 million into cities
Posted on: 26 June 2013
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A 12-year plan to move hundreds of millions of rural residents into cities is intended to spur economic growth, but could have unintended consequences, sceptics warn. This article outlines the proposals.
An investigation into the relationship between land administration and economic development
Posted on: 26 June 2013
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Land administration theory asserts that land administration activities support the economic, social and environmental development of a country. In this research, the national land titling programme of Thailand was studied as a successful example of this process and the surveying settlement programme in Bangladesh was selected as a detailed comparative case study of a village in the Gharinda Union.
Urbanisation and green growth in China
Posted on: 4 June 2013
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This working paper assesses national policy and governance mechanisms that can influence green growth in Chinese cities. It applies the OECD conceptual framework for urban green growth to examine the potential challenges and opportunities for increasing economic growth through reducing the environmental impact of urban land use, transport and buildings; through improving water and air quality; and through fostering supply and demand of green products and services. The paper first situates the issue of green growth within the nexus of urbanisation and environmental challenges now facing China. This is followed by a review of environmental and quality of life challenges posed by rapid urbanisation. Opportunities for national policies to influence green growth in four key urban policy sectors are then examined. The paper concludes with an assessment of governance challenges and considers potential changes to facilitate economic growth while reducing the environmental impact of cities.
The politics of transport infrastructure policies in Colombia
Posted on: 17 May 2013
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This paper analyses the Policy-Making Process (PMP) of transport infrastructure projects in Colombia for the period 2002-10. It aims to identify the main bottlenecks to improve the implementation of public policies in the main phases of the transport infrastructure policy cycle, namely planning, budgeting, execution, and monitoring and evaluation. The main results draw three conclusions. Firstly, there is a need to improve the planning and prioritisation stages of roads construction. Secondly, information problems affect monitoring and evaluation. Finally, the institutional weakness in the transport sector causes co-ordination failures between different transport modes (horizontal level) as well as inadequate separation of responsibilities and management of resources between national and sub-national governments (vertical level). This paper contributes to the research studying the PMP in Latin American economies.
Sanctuary in the city? Urban displacement and vulnerability in Peshawar, Pakistan
Posted on: 16 May 2013
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Pakistan has one of South Asia’s highest rates of urbanisation and is one of the world’s largest host countries for refugees. In recent years it has also seen increasing numbers of internally displaced people (IDPs) due to conflict and disasters. Peshawar, the capital of KP province, has become one of the largest recipient cities for refugees and IDPs in South Asia. It is also one of the poorest. Through interviews and group discussions with IDPs, Afghan refugees and longer-term residents of Peshawar, as well as government officials, aid agencies and others, this study examines the challenges of displacement in a context of rapid urbanisation.
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