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OECD - 2013

In most countries and economies, students who attend schools in urban areas tend to perform at higher levels than other students. Socio-economic status explains only part of the performance difference between students who attend urban schools and other students. Schools in urban settings are...

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Shared Mobility : Innovation for Liveable Cities

International Transport Forum - 2016

Building on our 2015 report Urban Mobility System Upgrade: How Shared Self-driving Cars Could Change City Traffic, this … study models the impact of replacing all car and bus trips in a city with mobility provided through fleets of shared … vehicles. The simulation is, again, based on real mobility and network data from a mid-size European city, namely Lisbon …

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Cities, Towns and Renewable Energy : Yes In My Front Yard

2009

every city and town depends on will need to be expanded, upgraded or replaced. This provides the opportunity to increase the …; leading by example; allowing self-governance. Mega-city mayors, down to small-town officials, have successfully introduced … projects can result, regardless of a community’s size or location. The goals of this report are to inspire city stakeholders by …

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Redefining "Urban" : A New Way to Measure Metropolitan Areas

2012

This report compares urbanisation trends in OECD countries on the basis of a newly defined OECD methodology which enables cross-country comparison of the socio-econimic and environmental performance of metropolitan areas in OECD countries. The methodology is presented and results from its...

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Water Governance in Cities

2016

Urban, demographic and climate trends are increasingly exposing cities to risks of having too little, too much and too polluted water. Facing these challenges requires robust public policies and sound governance frameworks to co-ordinate across multiple scales, authorities, and policy domains....

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Working together for local integration of migrants and refugees

OECD - 2018

, Athens, Barcelona, Berlin, Glasgow, Gothenburg, Paris, Rome and Vienna) and one small city in Germany (Altena), which are the … subject of in-depth case studies. The report also presents a 12-point checklist, a tool that any city or region – in Europe …

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Cities and Climate Change

2010

the resilience of urban infrastructure to climate change, thus shaping future trends. This book shows how city and …

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Competitive Cities and Climate Change

Kamal-Chaoui, Lamia - 2009

Cities are part of the climate change problem, but they are also a key part of the solution. This report offers a comprehensive analysis of how cities and metropolitan regions can change the way we think about responding to climate change. Cities consume the vast majority of global energy and...

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Konsum im inszenierten Raum: strukturelle Wettbewerbsvorteile von Kunstwelten und Herausforderung für das Innenstadtmanagement

Quack, Heinz-Dieter - In: Tourismusforschung in Nordrhein-Westfalen : Ergebnisse, …, (pp. 106 - 125). 2002

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Zulässigkeit eines modifizierten Einwohnermaßstabes für die Stadtstaaten

Schuppert, Gunnar Folke - In: Bürgerföderalismus : zukunftsfähige Maßstäbe für …, (pp. 155 - 162). 2000

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