Urban Policy
Housing and urban policy Applying a sociological imagination
... Third, building on the earlier preliminary discussion, the 'coherence' of the portfolio is appraised and a summary statement is made of the extent to which the work issues in a final ‘synthesis’. It is shown that the ...
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Discourse analysis and its utility for urban policy research
... in urban policy research than to explore some of the articles from this ...of urban policy research: political economy informed analysis and Foucauldian-inspired ...shape policy agendas ...
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Social mixing a facet of urban policy
... or urban studies and without prejudging their reality or can mention the contrast between rich areas and poor areas, difficult areas that go adrift, "ghettos" problems also raised by what would be a crisis ...
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Urban governance and territorial competition in Europe: An analysis of the north south diversity in the EU urban policy networks
... of urban government in articulating and regulating local economic and social relations functions primarily as a promoter of economic ...in urban policy. It also constitutes a distinct local ...
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Urban policy in Morocco in the face of new human development strategies
... characterize urban spaces force public authorities to rethink their action, managing the city would no longer be the prerogative of politicians and elected officials, but involving citizens, a kind of direct ...
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Three Essays in Urban Policy
... comprehensive measure of discrimination at a national level. Conducted every 8-12 years since 1977, the study is designed to provide a snapshot of current levels of housing discrimination and, importantly, allow for ...
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PROGRAM ON HOUSING AND URBAN POLICY
... Crucial modifications to housing assistance policy were introduced in the Section 8 housing program. The restriction that subsidies be paid only to owners of new or rehabilitated dwellings was weakened and ...
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Berkeley Program on Housing and Urban Policy UC Berkeley
... Of course, one could object to the need for any government intervention in these markets on the principle that the operation of a “fully competitive” market should itself protect less-informed market participants. That ...
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FOR A PROSPEROUS AND INTEGRATED ADRIATIC AND IONIAN REGION. Regional and Urban Policy
... ❛ After years of difficult political and economic circumstances, the Adriatic-Ionian Region has brighter prospects. By providing an overall framework for policy coordination and territorial cooperation, the Strat- ...
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Indicators of the urban sprawl and urban land policy
... neoliberal urban policy resulted in a switch from prosperous “boom scenarios” (in the era of financial “bubbles”) to subsequent “doom scenarios”, sprawling to an enormous number of cities and towns, both in ...
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Urban infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean: public policy priorities
... Public transit has a key role in socially and physically integrating the urban poor into the formal city. Mobility is one of the main factors that reduce social exclusion (Vella-Brodrick et al. 2011). In recent ...
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Appropriate national policy frameworks for sustainable urban mobility plans
... national policy has been devel- oped and implemented by the Dutch Ministry for Infrastructure and ...al policy and is responsible for rail infrastructure and opera- tions and the national highway ...
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Policy Arrangement for Waste Management in East Africa's Urban Centres
... In Mwanza, there are 21 wards, out of which only 14 wards receive solid waste management services. These are the wards in the urban sections of Mwanza city. Privatization of solid waste management resulted in the ...
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Deindustrialization and Urban Shrinkage in Romania. What Lessons for the Spatial Policy?
... industrial policy relied heavily on natural resources and in situ production infrastructure in the attempt to develop comparative advantages of the entire manufacturing sector and avoid ‘selective’ ...The ...
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Urban housing affordability and housing policy dilemmas in Nigeria
... Berry (2003) has gone further to show how housing affordability impacts local economic development and regional competitiveness. High housing costs in a city could frustrate and alienate young, creative workers at the ...
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Northeastern University Dukakis Center for Urban & Regional Policy
... The plan included funding to cover the operating budget deficit and debt service on sufficient bonding for the first two years of the gap in the MTA 2010-2014 capital program. It also mandated a series of aggressive ...
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Northeastern University Dukakis Center for Urban & Regional Policy
... targeted urban dwellers that live and work in high density areas along existing rail lines with the message that if you want more transit you should learn more about the referen- ...
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Urban development and governance in Nigeria : challenges, opportunities and policy direction
... Community involvement and engagement were recommended to improve urban planning and management. However, there were different perspectives on what it meant. The majority of the participants from Government and the ...
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Urban retrofit: pressures, policy and people in domestic retrofit at the city level
... specifically urban contexts, they do point to key local features and circumstances that steered and enabled significant transitions and they highlight the vast variation in local ...
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Regulating urban food sharing: policy, practice and food democracy goals
... shifting urban food system onto more sustainable path- ...to urban agriculture in London, influ- ential leverage on policy ...posed. Policy rarely acknowledges the value created by shared ...
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