... 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...

... arm continues to Leeds with interchanges at Toton, a parkway station 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...

... with municipalities and provincial capitals. For general and local planning concerned with cities other than municipalities and provincial capitals, it just needs to be approved by the people's government at the upper level. By the same token, for both control- and reparation-orientated detailed planning, they need...

...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...

... of municipal declaration in Bangladesh in accordance with the declaration criteria in Municipal Ordinance 1977 and Local Government (Municipality) Act 2009 (2009) determine existing anomalies in practice. The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) is the centralised apex body in Bangladesh...

... drawn international recognition. For example, in 1999, the Cuban Farming Association (Grupo de Agricultura Organica (GAO)) – at the forefront of Cuba's transition from industrial to organic agriculture and bringing together farmers, farm managers, field experts, researchers and government officials...

... across government and the public sector. The remainder of this briefing explores some of the key themes of the report's analysis. Figure 2 Foresight scenario grid (Foresight, 2008) In the commercial sector, cooling requirements dominate heating and the bulk of new non-domestic...

... and severity (Meehl and Tebaldi, 2004) and the UHI 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...

... successful schemes that have overcome some or all of these problems if care is exercised in interpreting the scheme benefits in relation to the identified barriers. 01 06 2008 11 11 2008 © 2009 Thomas Telford Ltd 2009 floods & floodworks government social impact...

...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...

... 08 2008 © 2009 Thomas Telford Ltd 2009 government public policy transport planning Car-free housing is not a new concept. Prior to widespread car ownership, all residential areas were car-free, although there were sometimes significant problems as a result of horse-drawn...

... to the authorities taking their eyes off the ball. Having provoked an international financial and economic crisis, the banks behaved like spoilt children and ran to governments for protection from the consequences of their actions. In the same vein, like over-indulgent parents keen to protect other children...

... 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 this refers to the degree to which...