Search Results - subject:"Urban management"

Instrumentos urbanísticos à luz dos planos diretores : uma análise a partir de um circuito completo de intervenção

Lima Neto, Vicente Correia; Krause, Cleandro Henrique; … - 2014

This paper discusses the use of urban policy instruments in Brazil, brought by the City Statute (CS) a federal law passed in 2001 ("Estatuto da Cidade" in Portuguese), as a tool of analysis of municipal master plans (MP). The main argument of this research is that the municipal urban policy...

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Redefining comprehensive urban management, in the Kingston Metropolitan Region, Jamaica

Bailey, Earl - In: Journal of Place Management and Development 7 (2014) 1, pp. 27-56

Purpose – Comprehensive urban management (CUM), with specified philosophical and technical limits, can address the … Metropolitan Region (KMR) in Jamaica, where their expressions are related to the lack of effective urban management and planning … negative demographic and social dynamics. Development plan and planning is lacking in the KMR. Urban management roles and …

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RESPONSE-EFFICIENCY-ASSESSMENT: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR RATING POLICY'S EFFICIENCY TO MEET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ON THE EXAMPLE OF SOIL SEALING MANAGEMENT

ARTMANN, MARTINA - In: Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and … 15 (2013) 04, pp. 1350024-1

In the field of environmental policy, it is widely accepted that the exploitation of the environment in a rapidly urbanising world needs intervention by policy to meet sustainable development. But which laws, incentives, and awareness raising actions support sustainable development? According to...

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The revival of urban waterfront areas: evaluation of British and Irish experiences

Cuturi, Candida - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 13 (2010) 1/2, pp. 122-148

Owing to the decline of urban ports-related activities, since the post-war period many European waterfront areas have been affected by obsolescence and degradation. Once vibrant seats of activities, flows of goods and people relationships, they have been gradually dismissed and abandoned,...

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Developing and sustaining creative cities: a sustainability tool for designers, planners, and public administrators

Steward, W. Cecil; Kuska, Sharon - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 13 (2010) 1/2, pp. 6-16

A creative city will be made up of many distinct characteristics within the five domains of sustainability: environmental qualities, socio-cultural conditions, technological applications, economic patterns and vitalities and supportive, democratic public policies. All of these characteristics...

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Urban semicentralised supply and disposal: innovations and challenges for Hanoi, Vietnam

Schramm, Sophie; Bieker, Susanne - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 13 (2010) 1/2, pp. 97-110

The development of the world population is characterised by two trends: absolute population growth and rapid urbanisation. In the urban region of Hanoi, the capital of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, extensive urbanisation contributes to a deficient provision of infrastructure causing...

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Creative urban processes in post-communist metropolises: the case of the Poznan metropolitan region

Stryjakiewicz, Tadeusz; Meczynski, Michal - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 13 (2010) 1/2, pp. 69-83

The emergence of a creative sector is one of the features of both a structural change of the world economy and society as well as the process of advancing metropolitanisation. Metropolitan areas are among those where this sector develops especially dynamically, and is turning into one of the...

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Sustainability, creativity, resilience: toward new development strategies of port areas through evaluation processes

Girard, Luigi Fusco - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 13 (2010) 1/2, pp. 161-184

Industrial-commercial and tourist ports areas are spaces of difference, rich in potential opportunities but also in contradictions and conflicts. The conservation of their particular landscape is very important for the city/region development, founded on a new metabolism. Port areas will become...

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The creative potential of medium-sized and small Greek cities: reflections on contemporary cultural strategies

Konsola, Dora; Karachalis, Nicholas - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 13 (2010) 1/2, pp. 84-96

As the creative city discourse has come to the centre of cultural policy debates, its rhetoric often neglects smaller cities and emphasises the cases of large cities that employ culture as a driver for economic growth. However, the cultural strategies of many medium sized and small cities focus...

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A local city to a creative city: an examination of Taichung, Taiwan

Liu, Li-Wei; Ko, Pei-Yin - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 13 (2010) 1/2, pp. 111-121

The creative city has become a worldwide subject in urban studies. Cultural industries now serve as the motor of urban creativity and regeneration. But, the construction of a creative city is not an easy task and requires a long period of policy manipulation. Many cities thus manage to 'become'...

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