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Liveability aspirations and realities: Implementation of urban policies designed to create healthy cities in Australia.

Social Science & Medicine (1967), 2019
Creating healthy, liveable cities is a common policy aspiration globally. However, little research has explored the capacity of urban policies to deliver this aspiration, or levels of policy implementation.
M. Lowe   +6 more
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Integrating e-scooters in urban transportation: Problems, policies, and the prospect of system change

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 2020
Throughout the world, cities seek to ease transport-related problems of congestion, air pollution, noise, and traffic injuries.
S. Gössling
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Anything new in town? The local effects of urban regeneration policies in Italy

Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2021
The paper estimates the local effects of urban regeneration policies by using evidence from interventions that took place in small and medium-sized cities in the Centre and North of Italy over the period 2008-12.
Giuseppe Albanese   +2 more
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Urban Systems of Accumulation: Half a Century of Chilean Neoliberal Urban Policies

Antipode, 2019
We analyse a half-century of Chilean urban reforms to explain the introduction of a system of urban accumulation by dispossession of public resources and opportunities.
Pablo Navarrete-Hernández, F. Toro
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Urban regeneration through heritage tourism: cultural policies and strategic management

Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, 2020
In spite of its influential history of saffron production and carpet weaving, as well as its notable urban historic fabric, the historic city of Birjand, Iran, has lost its original appeal due to various social, cultural, economic, and physical problems.
A. Lak, M. Gheitasi, D. Timothy
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Urban heat island, urban climate maps and urban development policies and action plans

Environmental Technology & Innovation, 2019
This paper aims at drawing attention to the deficiencies of urban heat island (UHI) mitigation strategies and urban climate maps (UCMs) towards practical implementations and efficient interventions in urban development policies and action plans (UDP/AP).
Mojtaba Parsaee   +3 more
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Urban growth simulation by incorporating planning policies into a CA-based future land-use simulation model

International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2018
Urban land-use change is affected by urban planning and government decision-making. Previous urban simulation methods focused only on planning constraints that prevent urban growth from developing in specific regions.
Xun Liang   +4 more
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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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Culture in sustainable urban development: Practices and policies for spaces of possibility and institutional innovations

City, Culture and Society, 2017
This article contributes to an exploration of the relations between culture and policies for sustainable development in cities. It discusses the potentials to advance a cultural approach to sustainable urban development by enabling urban “spaces of ...
Sacha Kagan   +3 more
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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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