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Tag Archives: local government
An Implementation Critique of Jan Gehl’s “Cities for People”
By Renard Teipelke In 2010, Danish architect and urban design thinker Jan Gehl compiled his profession’s key urban design principles and convictions in the well-received book “Cities for People”. I like the way he describes how the planning and development … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, building design, car, Cities for People, city government, eye level, human, interest group, Jan Gehl, land markets, local government, local politics, modernism, modernist planning, perspective, Place Development, Place Management, scale, soft edges, sustainability, urban design, urban development
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Key Messages from the ICLEI Resilient Cities Asia-Pacific Forum in Melaka, Malaysia, March 2016
By Renard Teipelke The following are a couple of key messages and interesting thoughts from the ICLEI Resilient Cities Asia-Pacific Forum, held in Melaka, Malaysia, 2-4 March 2016. On capacities and partnership: There will always be trade-offs for convincing actors … Continue reading
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Tagged agreement, Asia, budget, Conference, disaster, forum, ICLEI, institution, local government, management, MDGs, monitoring, Pacific, planning, resilience, SDGs, UN, urban planning, vision, youth
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Review of “Triumph of the City” – Part I: Not Satisfying
By Renard Teipelke Has there been any other book in the past couple of years which has polarized me that much!? Harvard economist, Edward Glaeser, published his New York Times Bestseller “Triumph of the City” in 2011 and I acquired … Continue reading
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Tagged attractive, Edward Glaeser, housing, local government, middle class, poverty, sprawl, suburb, tax system, United States, urban decline, urban poor, urban renewal
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