This report summarizes the First Annual Progress Report on the Poverty Reduction and Growth Strategy (PRGS) program. It assesses the status of the strategy implementation and monitoring mechanism, and emphasizes the need to face enormous development challenges and curb poverty and unemployment....

The economic development and land use policies pursued in Southern California throughout most of the twentieth century encouraged rapid population growth and urbanization of land. The five counties of Southern California – Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura...

Smart Growth advocates in the U.S. and elsewhere worry about urban sprawl andtypically advocate new controls on urban growth, including tougher land use planningand regulation. Yet, is auto-oriented development the market's way of meeting widelyheld lifestyle preferences? Or, is it (as some...

This paper presents preliminary evidence of the manner in which neighborhood councilsin Los Angeles are engaging in land use and planning. Charter reform in 1999 in LosAngeles authorized creation of a system of neighborhood councils charged withincreasing participation in city governance and...

Der Entwurf des Klimaschutzplans Nordrhein-Westfalen stellt sowohl im Hinblick auf seine komplexe Entstehung als auch seine potenziellen Wirkungen eine bemerkenswerte Neuerung für den planerischen Klimaschutz und die Klimaanpassung dar. Sein sektoren- und ebenenübergreifender und landesweiter...