... conservation demolition design design methods & aids disaster engineering ethics government history land surveying reclamation & renovation rehabilitation sustainable cities and communities town & city planning transport planning UN SDG 11: Sustainable cities and communities urban...

... Delft's academic community. Under Vincent's leadership, SPS has strengthened its position and become a centre of excellence on (a) international and European territorial governance and policy-making, including their potential for democracy building, (b) regional design and planning...

...Fransje Hooimeijer, PhD; Lidewij Tummers, MSc The pressures of climate change, energy transition, the financial crisis and retreating governments, call for a reintroduction of the subsurface into spatial planning. Most urban technological infrastructure, including load-bearing capacity, heat...

...Mark Dyer; Filippo Corsini; Chiara Certomà, PhD The paper builds on the evidence of an increasing consensus towards citizens' engagement practices in shaping both the form and functioning of the city, and on the apparent distance between the setting up of governance structures adequate...

... made between institutional settings across the countries involved. First, the most striking morphological differences between residential areas created between 1995 and 2005 were identified on three scales. Subsequently, it is shown how, why and when the differences between the institutions that govern...

... serving Nottingham and Derby and Meadowhall serving Sheffield and Doncaster (Figure 1). The concept was developed within the rail industry in the early 2000s (Atkins, 2003), but was adopted as government policy in 2010 in the last months of the Labour administration. Figure 1. Route map (DfT, 2011a...

... in that government officials are regarded as ‘gentlemen’ – a distinctive class placed above commoners as the ‘subjects’, thus breeding a political culture of ‘official prioritism’ (guanbenwei). Likewise, a hierarchy that blends polity and family naturally leads to cronyism, paternalism and clientelism. When human...

...Lei Wang, MSc; Jianfa Shen, MSc, PhD The five-year planning (FYP) system is very important in regulating economic and spatial development in China. By analysing the texts of five-year plans and corresponding spatial policies, as well as the primary governance issues since the foundation...

.... Municipal Ordinance 1977 is the legal basis on which a rural area can be declared a municipality. It also plays a major role in determining the functions and structures of the municipalities. In 2009, an updated version of Municipal Ordinance 1977 was published and renamed the Local Government (Municipality...

... Thomas Telford 2010 energy government social impact From governments to local communities, all areas of society must prepare for the ‘triple crisis’: the combined effects of global warming, peak oil and depletion of the world's key resources (e.g. food), which are converging at the same...

... of the economy and the expectations of individuals. Figure 1 The concept of co-evolution (Foresight, 2008) energy government social impact In 2006, the Foresight Programme of the Government Office for Science was asked to explore how the UK built environment could evolve to help manage...

... effect will accentuate the affects of regional warming by increasing summer temperatures relative to outlying districts. In the past 12 months, the UK government has shown strong leadership in tackling and adapting to climate change. The Climate Change Act 2008 makes the UK the first country...

..., especially if implemented during other building work, and which could be universally applied in floodplain properties. It is important for governments and strategic planners to determine the appropriate level of adaptation for each potential disaster situation. Increasing reliance on property level...

...P. Allmendinger, BSc, PhD, MRTPI, MRICS There is growing interest and concern over the impact of regulatory controls on the supply of housing in the UK. While published data indicate performance has improved considerably, the housing industry and government point to the unacceptably long time taken...

... communities and also as a means of facilitating car-free housing. More positively, in Making Residential Travel Plans Work: Guidelines for New Development, 14 the government specifically suggests that residential travel plans should consider measures including parking restraint (potential for car...

...Geoffrey Payne © 2008 Thomas Telford Ltd 2008 developing countries government Now that Britain's Northern Rock bank is no longer in a hard place, shares are recovering and a housing price crash has hopefully been averted, we can all relax. Or can we? Even more importantly...

... their differing political traditions and governmental structures have on neighbourhood (or area-based) policies. Moreover, given that neighbourhood interventions are a form of welfare policy, it is important to bear in mind the nature of the welfare state model and the role of local government in each country; 8...