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Eagle, Steven - 2015

City planning in America began as a Progressive Era exercise, intended to pre-serve property values and implicitly incorporate the social norms of officials and planners. Over time, rigid zoning was replaced by flexibility, accompanied by opaque bargaining between localities and developers....

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Health in All Policies as a Strategic Policy Response to NCDs

Lin, Vivian; Jones, Catherine; Wang, Shiyong; Barbd, Enis - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

The aim of Health in All Policies (HiAP) is to bring diverse sectors together to find shared solutions; it focuses on identifying 'win-win' or 'cobenefits' such that policy measures contribute not only to improved health outcomes but also to outcomes desired by other sectors, such as education,...

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Distributive Politics Inside the City? The Political Economy of Spain’s Plan E

Carozzi, Felipe - 2017

We study distributive politics inside cities by analysing how local governments allocate investment projects to voters across neighbourhoods. In particular, we ask whether politicians use investment to target their own supporters. To this aim, we use detailed geo-located investment data from...

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Urbanization, Land Development and Land Financing : Evidence from Chinese Cities

Ye, Lin - 2015

China's urbanization is significant world-wide. This process is characterized by under-urbanization of population and …. The findings reveal that land financing, using different measures, significantly contributed to land urbanization in China …. Economically stronger cities with higher real estate investment more aggressively pushed for land urbanization. The true purpose of …

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City Replanning

Hills, Jr., Roderick M. - 2014

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Planning mobility in a fragmented metropolitan area : The case of Prague and its suburbs

Huerta Melchor, Oscar - 2020

A common urban mobility plan for Prague and its metropolitan region as well as the creation of an integrated transport system coordinated by a central transport body are the main assets Prague can leverage to enhance accessibility. However, weak links to land use plans, the lack of...

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Role of Environment in Strengthening Competitiveness of Cities by Example of European Green Capitals and Tallinn

Ratas, Jüri - 2015

Guaranteeing a high-level living environment is one of the most important preconditions to the balanced and sustainable economic and social development of the European Union. Serious environmental problems can be seen in European cities, which are the places where most of the population live and...

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Distributive Politics Inside the City? The Political Economy of Spain's Plan E

Carozzi, Felipe - 2017

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Urban Autonomy : Fiefs, Communities and King Owned Towns in South Italy (1000-1806)

Gatti, Fabio - 2022

Urban governance has been considered a key feature in the political and economic development in Europe in the medieval and early modern times. This paper aims to explore the different institutional settings that characterized the community organization in the Kingdom of Naples, with a particular...

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Urban Governance and Finance in India

Rao, M. Govinda; Bird, Richard M. - 2014

Over 330 million people live in India’s cities; 35 cities have a population of over a million and three (Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata) of the 10 largest metropolises in the world are in India. India’s cities are large, economically important, and growing. However, neither urban infrastructure...

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