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How are local authorities responding to climate change and health impacts? A policy document analysis of four England regions

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Innovation in Urban Policy: The Experience of Italian Urban Time Policies

Planning Theory & Practice, 2002
ABSTRACT Urban time policies are public policies that intervene in the time schedules and time organization that regulate human relationships at the urban level. Urban time policies were launched in Italy at the end of the 1980s. Within a span of 10 to 15 years, 170 municipalities have been involved in time-oriented projects or timetable plans, or in ...
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Urban Knowledge and Urban Policy

2013
As we have seen in contemporary societies, particularly in relation to the ‘knowledge-based society and economy’, the role and position of knowledge has acquired increasingly strong and positive connotations; this is an indication that reflection and careful preparation is important before action takes place (although one might argue that this has ...
Andersen, Hans Thor, Atkinson, Robert
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The English urban policy debate: an urban policy for all

Town Planning Review, 2015
Urban policy and its many substrata, such as urban regeneration, is by no means a neutral term. For Atkinson and Moon (1994, xi) urban policy ‘seeks to foster prosperity or, more often, to bring about a return to prosperity and moderate the impact of decay’.
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Social Spaces and Urban Policies

2012
Social area analysis of cities generally shows three dominant dimensions characterising urban neighbourhoods: socioeconomic differences (rich and poor), socio-demographic differences (families and other households), and sociocultural differences (differences in ethnicity or in religion).
Ostendorf, W., Musterd, S.
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Policy Innovations in the Urban Context

2002
Urban areas are the cause of two sorts of environmental problems. The first sort is seen in the cities themselves, with noise pollution, local air pollution, external safety risks, and soil pollution. There are also those environmental problems that cities push onto other areas and the higher levels in terms of scale.
van der Waals, J.F.M., Glasbergen, P.
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