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Cities and regions of sustainable communities - new strategies

By: Language: English Series: Town and Country Planning Tomorrow Series ; Paper 4 July 2006Publication details: London TCPA 2006Subject(s): LOC classification:
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Online resources: Summary: Summarises key themes emerging from innovative attempts to modernise strategic urban, housing and planning policies and practices. The paper is based on an anaylsis of the literature, dialogue with expert practitioners and academics and site visits to over 50 growth and regeneration schemes across North America, northern Europe and Australasia. Covers value as a new rationale for intervention, understanding subsidiarity, the use of data in decision-making, and the issue of social and economically mixed and balanced communities. Asserts that private and social housing is not mutually exclusive and underlines the importance of neighbourhood schools and also the public realm. Comments on risk, leadership, accountability and skills as wells as immigration, growth and local economies. References.
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Summarises key themes emerging from innovative attempts to modernise strategic urban, housing and planning policies and practices. The paper is based on an anaylsis of the literature, dialogue with expert practitioners and academics and site visits to over 50 growth and regeneration schemes across North America, northern Europe and Australasia. Covers value as a new rationale for intervention, understanding subsidiarity, the use of data in decision-making, and the issue of social and economically mixed and balanced communities. Asserts that private and social housing is not mutually exclusive and underlines the importance of neighbourhood schools and also the public realm. Comments on risk, leadership, accountability and skills as wells as immigration, growth and local economies. References.