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Urban Development: Cities
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As of 1994, 'Cities and Urban Development' in cooperation with the UNESCO's Management of Social Transformations Programme (MOST) focused on cities as arenas of accelerated social transformations. This Programme has made a significant contribution to capacity building and transfer of comparative and policy-relevant knowledge on urban development, local democracy and citizenship through international research networks and research-action projects. It has ... supported innovative initiatives concerning the training of urban professionals and promotional activities such as UNESCO-Chairs on ‘Urban Management and Sustainable Urban Planning’ (Mexico), on ‘Landscape and Environmental Design’ (Montreal)and 'Urban Policies and Citizenship' (Lyon).
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The Department of Economic and Urban Development is responsible for coordinating and directing citywide redevelopment initiatives, community planning and marketing redevelopment opportunities to the private sector using professional staff and consulting resources. The department is dedicated to maximizing the quality, pace and beneficial economic impact of Tampa's key strategic community revitalization and economic incentives.
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The principles of the Reconstruction and Development Programme underpin the Urban Strategy. Urban development should therefore be people-driven, integrated and sustainable, and implemented mainly through the reallocation of existing resources. The Urban Strategy must ... be located within the broader context of the equitable and efficient functioning of the entire national settlement system. Healthy cities demand healthy countrysides - and vice versa. The strategy will thus form - alongside a Rural Strategy - an integral part of a forthcoming National Growth and Development Strategy.
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The North West Development Office assumes urban regeneration responsibilities for Londonderry and the neighbouring towns of Strabane and Limavady. North West Development Office will take additional roles in respect of overseeing the City Vision process and implementation of the Regional Development Strategy at sub-regional level. This additional role has been agreed by the Department for Social Development and the Department for Regional Development.
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This module explores the challenges of urban governance in the context of selected urban areas in the global South and the global North, offering students real-life platforms to gain experience of urban development planning practice. In undertaking this, and through a series of different teaching and practice formats, the module has the overall purpose of equipping students with the knowledge, techniques and skills required on the ground from practitioners. To this end, students’ practical involvement with urban reality will be effectively realised by exposing them to two field study platforms in the context of two simulated consultancy exercises. The first such exercise is set in an inner city borough of East London spanning the entire first term and extending into the second term; it is accompanied by a fieldtrip to a city in Africa, Asia or Latin America in the thrid term. In both cases, students become familiar with and diagnose the case, as well as develop proposals and strategies forward for more socially just urban development. The other skills imparted relate to the development of a methodological approach to research, interviewing techniques, as well as the production and use of qualitative and quantitative data in planning practice.
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Detroit Renaissance was founded by business leaders in 1970 to facilitate solutions and urban development. It is currently chaired by William Clay Ford and Comerica CEO Ralph Babb. Its board includes Dennis Archer, former Detroit Mayor and Michigan Supreme Court Justice, four university presidents including Mary Sue Coleman, and others. Detroit Renaissance has a long list of accomplishments and has generated hundreds of millions of dollars in development for the city. It is at the center of a nexus of organizations formed for the city's recent redevelopment which include the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy.[4]
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