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Transforming urban economies: Policy lessons from European and Asian cities
Posted on: 23 July 2013
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This is the first in an ongoing series of research volumes which LSE Cities are publishing with Routledge. Cities house the majority of the world’s population and are the dynamic centres of 21st century life, at the heart of economic, social and environmental change. They are still beset by difficult problems but often demonstrate resilience in the face of regional and national economic decline. Faced by the combined threats of globalisation and world recession, cities and their metropolitan regions have had to fight hard to maintain their global competitiveness and protect the quality of life of urban residents. This book provides insights in how cities can respond positively to these challenges. It presents a fine-grained and authoritative analysis of how Barcelona, Turin, Munich and Seoul have been transformed in the last 20 years, and examines the comparative patterns of decline, adaptation and recovery which have successfully managed to transform their economies in the face of economic hardship. Price £85
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.
Institute for Future Cities
Posted on: 27 June 2013
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The Institute for Future Cities has been launched at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Working in partnership with cities, business, research institutions and government across the world, the institute will create a focus and strategy to co-ordinate research on urban themes.
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.
Smart cities: How to build sustainable and resilient environments in an increasingly urbanized world
Posted on: 26 June 2013
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This white paper aims to provide a framework for understanding the definitions, market indicators, key metrics and value propositions smart cities hold for numerous industries. The emergence of smart cities as the receptacle for ideas, thoughts, policies and strategies about the future of the world’s cities is an important milestone because it comes amid rapid innovation, convergence and a redefinition of what it means to live and work in an urban environment in the 21st century.
Cities of tomorrow: Action today
Posted on: 26 June 2013
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In October 2011, the European Commission published a report, Cities of tomorrow: Challenges, visions, ways forward, which examined the possible impact of a series of major trends on different types of European cities in the coming years. Six ‘workstreams’, launched by URBACT at the beginning of 2012, examined a theme which corresponds with one of the threats identified by Cities of Tomorrow and, over the period of a year, has brought together evidence from URBACT projects but also from a wide range of stakeholders from all around Europe. Reports on these themes are now available:
From crisis to choice: Re-imagining the future in shrinking cities
This report calls for a new realism with regard to urban regeneration in cities affected by shrinkage.
More jobs: Better cities. A framework for city action on jobs
This report provides a framework for city action on jobs, which aims to help cities support and grow more and better jobs for the recovery. It is aimed at practitioners and policy-makers at the city level, as well as those at national and international levels, concerned with urban employment and skills policy and practice.
Supporting urban youth through social innovation: Stronger together
This report examines how cities can promote social innovation to address chronic social challenges. Although our specific focus is young people, the conditions identified for promoting social innovation have wider relevance.
Against divided cities in Europe
This report intends to provide an overview of the concept of urban segregation and related public policies that have been studied and explored within URBACT. The objective is also to bring forward some of the most interesting practices from URBACT partner cities working on integrated sustainable development, which have implemented innovative policies against segregation.
How cities can motivate mobility mindsets
This report focuses on the ways in which cities can facilitate the transition to a new urban mobility, which is more fundamentally linked to the quality of space, to a new mindset, and is built on integration between policy priorities and multi-stakeholder buy-in.
Building energy efficiency in European cities
This report examines how cities can mitigate climate change by reducing energy consumption in the construction, maintenance and refurbishment of buildings.
Cities of tomorrow: Action today. URBACT II Capitalisation. Key message
This report highlights some of the main points previous six reports make, with a particular focus on those that are relevant for cities concerned with supporting integrated sustainable urban development in the next round of EU programmes.
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.
Cities of tomorrow: Action today
Posted on: 28 May 2013
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The final results and findings of the 6 URBACT thematic capitalisation workstreams in the series of URBACT Thematic Reports Cities of Tomorrow – Action Today are now available. Prefaced by the European Commissioner for Regional Policy, Johannes Hahn, these publications provide evidence of sustainable urban development strategies pulling together the environmental, social and economic pillars of the Europe2020, while also adopting an integrated and participative approach.
Rethinking cities: Framing the future. Barcelona, 8-10 October 2012
Posted on: 13 March 2013
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The 6th Urban Research and Knowledge Symposium sought to contribute and inform policy choices that can help policymakers manage potential economic efficiency, environmental sustainability and social equity tradeoffs associated with urbanization. The Symposium was organized by The World Bank in partnership with the City of Barcelona and some key partners, and provided a global forum for urban stakeholders, and all who are interested in cities, to discuss and exchange knowledge on urban matters of how to make policy choices under resource constraints and uncertainty that will minimise lock-in and path dependency at later stages of urban development. This site provides information on the background, program, and speakers. You can also download the research and policy papers prepared for and presented during the Symposium.
Urban Research Unit
Posted on: 31 January 2013
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Grimshaw and Futurecity have announced the launch of their Urban Research Unit (URU). This is a one-year research project which seeks to influence the architecture, masterplanning, public realm, and the external relationships needed to design new urban spaces of scale, ambition and quality. Established in New York and London, this joint initiative will consider and challenge the conventional approach used to plan and develop contemporary urban centres. URU will develop a toolkit of key issues and considerations to be applied as New York and London’s urban environments prepare for the future.
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