National Urban Policy

Author : Debolina Kundu,Remy Sietchiping,Michael Kinyanjui
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811537387

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Developing National Urban Policies by Debolina Kundu,Remy Sietchiping,Michael Kinyanjui Pdf

This book discusses and analyzes past and ongoing national urban policy development efforts from around the globe, particularly those that can lead the way toward smart and green cities. In view of the adoption of the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, especially the goal to have cities that are inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable, urban policies that can help achieve this goal are urgently needed. The UN-Habitat (HABITAT III) puts national urban policies at the heart of implementing and rethinking the urban agenda, and identifies them as being integral to the equitable and sustainable development of nations. Against this background, this important book, which gathers contributions from academics, planners and urban specialists, reviews existing urban policies from developing and developed nations, discusses various countries’ smart and green urban policies, and outlines the way forward. As such, it is essential reading for all social scientists, planners, designers, architects, and policymakers working on urban development around the world.

Author : Karsten Zimmermann,Valeria Fedeli
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781839109058

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A Modern Guide to National Urban Policies in Europe by Karsten Zimmermann,Valeria Fedeli Pdf

Written in a clear and concise style, this Modern Guide provide a timely overview and comparison of urban challenges and national urban policies in 13 European countries, addressing key issues such as housing, urban regeneration and climate change. A team of international contributors explore the gap between the rise of international urban agendas and variegated national urban policies, examining whether a more bespoke approach is better than the traditional ‘one size fits all’.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264286191

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OECD Urban Policy Reviews: Viet Nam by OECD Pdf

This report provides a comprehensive assessment of Viet Nam’s urban policies and analyses how national spatial planning for urban areas, along with specific sectoral policies, directly and indirectly affect Viet Nam’s urban development.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264268852

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OECD Urban Policy Reviews: Kazakhstan by OECD Pdf

This report provides a comprehensive assessment of Kazakhstan’s urban policies in terms of economic, social and environmental impact.

Author : Ivan Turok
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Urban policy
ISBN : 9211326400

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The Evolution of National Urban Policies by Ivan Turok Pdf

Author : Bernard H. Ross,Myron A. Levine
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780765630964

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Urban Politics by Bernard H. Ross,Myron A. Levine Pdf

This popular text mixes the best classic theory and research on urban politics with the most recent developments in urban and metropolitan affairs. Its very balanced and realistic approach helps students to understand the nature of urban politics and the difficulty of finding effective solutions in a suburban and global age. The eighth edition provides a comprehensive review and analysis of urban policy under the Obama administration and brand new coverage of sustainable urban development. A new chapter on globalization and its impact on cities brings the history of urban development up to date, and a focus on the politics of local economic development underscores how questions of economic development have come to dominate the local arena. The book traces the changing style of community participation, including the emergence of CDCs, BIDs, and other new-style service organizations. It analyzes the impacts of the New Regionalism, the New Urbanism, and much more at an approachable level. The eighth edition is significantly shorter and more affordable than previous editions, and the entire text has been thoroughly rewritten to engage students. Boxed case studies of prominent recent and current urban development efforts provide material for class discussion, and concluding material demonstrates the tradeoff between more ideal and more pragmatic urban politics. Source material provides Internet addresses for further research.

Author : OECD,Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher : Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : City planning
ISBN : 9264271880

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National Urban Policy in OECD Countries by OECD,Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Pdf

Cities are crucial for national economic, social and environmental performance. A national urban policy (NUP) has been recognised by the international community as an important instrument for harnessing urbanisation to achieve national and global goals. This report, prepared for the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), provides an assessment of the state and scope of NUPs across 35 OECD countries. It also describes how urban policy, and its place in national political agendas, is evolving. This publication has been prepared for the Habitat III conference and builds on existing United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN Habitat) methodology. It is inspired by the joint work of UN-Habitat and the OECD following their co-leadership of Policy Unit 3 on National Urban Policies during the preparations for the New Urban Agenda. The findings of this report will contribute to the global monitoring process of National Urban Policy, as will the Global Report on National Urban Policy, jointly produced by UN Habitat and the OECD.

Author : OECD,China Development Research Foundation
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264092259

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Trends in Urbanisation and Urban Policies in OECD Countries What Lessons for China? by OECD,China Development Research Foundation Pdf

This report presents an overview of trends in urban policies in OECD countries with the objective to identify successes and failure that could inform national Chinese policy-makers in their preparation of an Urbanisation Strategy.

Author : Leo Van Den Berg,Erik Braun,Jan Van Der Meer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429820274

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National Urban Policies in the European Union by Leo Van Den Berg,Erik Braun,Jan Van Der Meer Pdf

First published in 1998, this collection of essays compares the implementation of urban policies in 15 different countries across the European Union, with most articles’ contributors hailing from their subject nation. The contributors include experts in geography and spatial, town, transport and urban planning, and their contributions reflect fundamental changes in the economy, technology, demography and politics of European towns and cities. They ask four main questions: what the urban development pattern is, what administrative and financial relations between national authorities and cities exist, which issues the national authorities consider to be prominent and how this impacts on the national urban planning policies. Through the provision of national perspectives, they ask what can be learned through the comparison of how each region has tailored its perspective and strategy.

Author : James DeFilippis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : City planning
ISBN : 081669656X

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Urban Policy in the Time of Obama by James DeFilippis Pdf

With his background as a community organizer and as a state legislator representing Chicago's South Side, Barack Obama became America's most "urban" president since Teddy Roosevelt. But what has been his record in dealing with the issues most impacting our metropolitan areas today? Looking past the current administration, what are the future prospects of the nation's cities, and how have they been shaped by our policies in this century? Seeking to answer these questions, the contributors to Urban Policy in the Time of Obama explore a broad range of policy arenas that shape, both directly and indirectly, metropolitan areas and urbanization processes. This volume reveals the Obama administration's surprisingly limited impact on cities, through direct policy initiatives such as Strong Cities, Strong Communities, Promise Neighborhoods, and Choice Neighborhood Initiatives. There has been greater impact with broader policies that shape urban life and governance, including immigration reform, education, and health care. Closing with Cedric Johnson's afterword illuminating the Black Lives Matter movement and what its broader social context says about city governance in our times, Urban Policy in the Time of Obama finds that most of the dominant policies and policy regimes of recent years have fallen short of easing the ills of America's cities, and calls for a more equitable and just urban policy regime. Contributors: Rachel G. Bratt, Tufts University; Christine Thurlow Brenner, University of Massachusetts Boston; Karen Chapple, University of California, Berkeley; James Fraser, Vanderbilt University; Edward G. Goetz, University of Minnesota; Dan Immergluck, Georgia Tech; Amy T. Khare, University of Chicago; Robert W. Lake, Rutgers University; Pauline Lipman, University of Illinois at Chicago; Lorraine C. Minnite, Rutgers University-Camden; Kathe Newman, Rutgers University; Deirdre Oakley, Georgia State; Frances Fox Piven, City University of New York; Hilary Silver, Brown University; Janet Smith, University of Illinois at Chicago; Preston H. Smith II, Mount Holyoke Colle≥ Todd Swanstrom, University of Missouri-St. Louis; Nik Theodore, University of Illinois at Chicago; J. Phillip Thompson, MIT.

Author : OECD,United Nations Human Settlements Programme
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264290747

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Global State of National Urban Policy by OECD,United Nations Human Settlements Programme Pdf

With two thirds of the world’s population projected to live in urban areas by the middle of this century, the accelerating pace of urbanisation generates crucial opportunities and challenges for sustainable development that reach far beyond city boundaries. Many global processes have recognised ...

Author : OECD,European Commission
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264376663

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OECD Urban Studies Cities in the World A New Perspective on Urbanisation by OECD,European Commission Pdf

Cities are not only home to around half of the global population but also major centers of economic activity and innovation. Yet, so far there has been no consensus of what a city really is. Substantial differences in the way cities, metropolitan, urban, and rural areas are defined across countries hinder robust international comparisons and an accurate monitoring of SDGs. The report Cities in the World: A New Perspective on Urbanisation addresses this void and provides new insights on urbanisation by applying for the first time two new definitions of human settlements to the entire globe: the Degree of Urbanisation and the Functional Urban Area.

Author : Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly,John F. Martin
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780802099631

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Local Government in a Global World by Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly,John F. Martin Pdf

Contributors provide insights into key themes impacting local governance in two federations with much in common historically, culturally, and politically: Australia and Canada. These essays examine changes in the Australian and Canadian systems through four thematic lenses: citizen participation in government systems, the restructuring and reform of local governments, the use of performance measures and management systems in the administration of local governments, and the relations of local governments within higher levels of governments.

Author : Edward Ramsamy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134286973

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World Bank and Urban Development by Edward Ramsamy Pdf

As one of the world’s most powerful supranational institutions, the World Bank has played an important role in international development discourse and practice since 1946. This is the first book-length history and analysis of the Bank’s urban programs and their complex relationship to urban policy formulation in the developing world. Through extensive primary research, the book examines four major themes: the political and economic forces that propelled the reluctant World Bank to finally embrace urban programs in the 1970s how the Bank fashioned its general ideology of development into specific urban projects trends and transitions within the Bank’s urban agenda from its inception to the present the World Bank’s historic and contemporary role in the complex interaction between global, national, and local forces that shape the urban agendas of developing countries. The book also examines how protests from NGOs and civic movements, in the context of globalization and neo-liberalism, have influenced the World Bank policies from the 1990s to the present. The institution’s attempts to restructure and legitimate itself, in light of shifting geo-political and intellectual contexts, are considered throughout.

Author : Iain Begg
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002-02-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781861343574

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Urban Competitiveness by Iain Begg Pdf

The factors that make some cities more successful has become an increasingly important policy issue. This book is the first to explore facets of competitiveness in a systematic way that combines theory, evidence and policy implications. Bringing together experts on urban economic performance, it provides a new look at urban competitiveness.