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urbanAPI – Information and Communication Technology
Posted on: 7 November 2013
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The urbanAPI – Information and Communication Technology (ICT) project will provide urban planners with the tools needed to actively plan and manage the urban environment. Tools will be developed within three urban planning contexts and scales:
Neighbourhood scale: Urban planning using a 3D scenario creator
City scale: The Public Motion explorer
Urban region scale: Interactive city region development simulation
The metropolitan revolution: perspectives from US cities
Posted on: 4 November 2013
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In this lecture Bruce Katz, author of The Metropolitan Revolution, vice president of the Brookings Institution and founding director of the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program, explains how ground-up innovations at a city level are solving the toughest economic problems in the US. Anne Power, professor of social policy at LSE, reflects on the relevance of these developments on UK cities.
Planning Theory and Practice Blog
Posted on: 1 November 2013
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The journal Planning Theory and Practice has launched its first blog. The article gives advice on how to write an article which will impress critics. Planning Theory and Practice is encouraging contributors, reviewers and readers of the magazine to get in touch if they have an idea for a relevant blog they would like published.
Suburban sprawl: Exposing hidden costs, identifying innovations
Posted on: 1 November 2013
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Sustainable Prosperity, a national research and policy network, based at the University of Ottawa, has published a report which discusses some of the main costs of sprawl – both costs that show up on financial statements and those that are hidden. It also discusses some of the ways that governments can reshape prices to help rein in sprawl.
High Street Renewal Fund 2013
Posted on: 30 October 2013
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The High Streets Renewal Fund rewarded areas already delivering the most effective and innovative plans to bring their town centres back to life. A panel of experts visited areas bidding for the funding to evaluate the projects in terms of innovation, effectiveness, the transformative nature of the changes, how replicable the ideas are for elsewhere, and their ability to promote good practice. This report presents seven case studies, each displaying creativity, excellence and local decision making in towns and cities from right across the country.
Places in the making: How placemaking builds places and communities
Posted on: 29 October 2013
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Public places play a key role in building community and placemaking can empower local communities to create a sense of “belonging” through place. A new report from researchers at the Massachusetts Instiute of Technology examines the interactions between placemaking, community participation, and the expanding ways communities are collaborating to make great public places.
Successful development of the Thame neighbourhood plan: a case study
Posted on: 25 October 2013
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Thame was one of the first communities to get a neighbourhood plan in place. As a front runner, the South Oxfordshire District Council and Thame Town Council have pioneered the process of developing neighbourhood plans. Their experience with the process and with working together provides invaluable advice to help other councils to work effectively on translating community aspirations into plans for the future.
Planning out poverty: A reinvention of social town planning
Posted on: 24 October 2013
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The Town & Country Planning Association has published a report which highlights strong evidence that planning could play a much more positive role by fully integrating, within both local and national public policy, with sectors such as regeneration and health and by reconnecting with issues that matter to local people.
Community Infrastructure Levy
Posted on: 24 October 2013
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This map will allow users to click on individual Local Planning Authorities (LPAs) and see which stage of Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) the LPA is at and, if published, what the proposed maximum rate is per square metre.
Silver linings. The active third age and the city
Posted on: 22 October 2013
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Building Futures, the think tank of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), has published a new report exploring some of the economic and social changes that a dominant ageing population will bring in the next 30 years. The report describes a future where people may choose luxurious, international retirement lifestyles or live with their generations of their families in one grand design. It adds that our beleaguered high streets could take on a new lease of life, with health hubs, child care facilities and universities and. our coastal towns, traditionally favoured by older generations but currently facing big social and economic challenges, could all be transformed by a more active retired population.
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