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- 1From:Town Planning Review (Vol. 85, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedSACRPH, Toronto, 3-6 October 2013 Last autumn, the Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH) held its fifteenth biennial meeting in Toronto, Canada. The meeting confirmed the association's...
- 2From:Social Justice (Vol. 39, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedGrowth and Poverty BETWEEN 1995 AND 2007, GREECE EXPERIENCED ONE OF THE EUROPEAN Union's (EU) highest rates of economic growth (Kaplanis 2011; Matsaganis and Leventi 2011, 5). However, a substantial portion of the...
- 3From:Town Planning Review (Vol. 82, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Town Planning has a somewhat different signification in America to that which it has in Germany or with us. Following Germany, the term in England is generally understood to imply schemes whose...
- 4From:Design WeekThe upcoming football World Cup has accelerated urban development in South Africa and helped kick-start a range of local initiatives, despite Fifa's tight grip on the official branding. Lynda Relph-Knight looks at how...
- 5From:Journal of Property Management (Vol. 73, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe government of Abu Dhabi and WWF, formerly the World Wildlife Fund, recently unveiled a sustainability strategy to make Masdar the world's greenest city. Masdar City will be the world's first zero-carbon,...
- 6From:The Canadian Geographer (Vol. 51, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAt the invitation of the editor, this article offers an overview of my personal research trajectory in one thematic area--the study of urban form, structure and growth. The purpose of the article is not to assign...
- 7From:Canadian Journal of Urban Research (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn recent years, there has been a movement towards more grassroots-modelled collaborative planning approaches in Northern Canada. These approaches have frequently been directed at heightening the relevance of social...
- 8From:Environments (Vol. 29, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Growing urban environmental challenges indicate a need for more crossdisciplinary, cross-sectoral and civic approaches to planning, decision-making and research as alternatives to traditional disciplinary,...
- 9From:Urban Studies (Vol. 38, Issue 13) Peer-ReviewedSummary. This paper uses a probit model to evaluate a total of 1353 sets of cross-sectional development control (planning application) statistics not previously published for 3 classes of statutory residential zones in...
- 10From:Alternatives Journal (Vol. 29, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedSMART GROWTH is in the air. Smart growth plans are popping up in municipalities all over the country, smart growth organizations are being formed in several provinces and a national coalition of smart growth groups was...
- 11From:Design Week (Vol. 18, Issue 39)An area the size of Greater London is lying derelict and vacant across England and Wales and poor urban design is largely to blame, according to the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment's Space arm....
- 12From:Urban Studies (Vol. 40, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedSummary. This paper examines the role of urban scale, density and land-use mix on the incidence of road pedestrian casualties. It develops a spatial model at a disaggregate level that attempts to understand how the...
- 13From:Design Week (Vol. 18, Issue 45)Bedford Borough Council has appointed GVA Grimley to lead a team including design group Urban Initiatives and transport consultant MVA in creating a masterplan aimed at revitalising Bedford town centre. The project will...
- 14From:Urban Studies (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedSummary. The emergence of distressed urban areas in the 1990s was unexpected. Governments have reacted with a series of policy initiatives which have increasingly focused on area-based strategies, partnerships and the...
- 15From:Design WeekA branding consultancy was due to be appointed for Kent Thames-side's major new public transport system called Fastrack, as Design Week went to press. Five unnamed groups were due to present credentials and proposals...
- 16From:Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine (Issue 93)Toronto: House of Anasi Press, 1998, 320 pp., ill. b. & w. Inspired by Walter Benjamin and Asja Lacis' 1925 essay on Naples with its metaphoric use of the term "porosity," the most recent and ambitious edition of the...
- 17From:The American Enterprise (Vol. 9, Issue 6)Charges that environmentally hazardous economic businesses affect minorities more than white Americans are untrue. Many such charges are based on flawed studies. Environmentalists should also realize prohibitions against...
- 18From:The American Enterprise (Vol. 9, Issue 5)Free enterprise and charitable activities have combined to create a prosperous community based on hard work and service in Grand Rapids, MI. The Grand Rapids area is home to such companies as Amway, Meijer, Universal...
- 19From:Architecture (Vol. 88, Issue 6)These days, it is fashionable for urban planners to praise artists for revitalizing old neighborhoods, but there are very few cities where artists' communities are protected against real estate speculators. For a short...
- 20From:American Review of Public Administration (Vol. 20, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedStrategic Planning in U.S. Cities: Patterns of Use, Perceptions of Effectiveness, and an Assessment of Strategic Capacity Abstract: For this study of the use of strategic planning in American cities, data were...