Promoting a global discussion on how to manage our towns and cities better in a rapidly urbanising world
Category: Urban Economy
Category: Complexitas
[Organization] - Posted by: Gareth Johnston - Wed 15 May, 2013Complexitas helps corporations and government to adapt to climate change and so become more resilient.
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Category: Urban areas emerge as huge magnets for jobs
[News] - Posted by: Ed Kerry - Wed 8 May, 2013 - Author(s): , Subodh Varma
A fascinating , but worrying , picture of the way common Indians are earning their living emerges from recently released Census 2011 data. (...)
Category: Urban agriculture booms in Hyderabad
[News] - Posted by: Nerisa Kamar - Tue 7 May, 2013 - Author(s): , Sribaala VadlapatlaHYDERABAD: Urban agriculture is the new culture that is catching up in the city. (...)
Category: Rwanda: Cities Struggling to Provide Basic Ammenities
[News] - Posted by: Nerisa Kamar - Mon 6 May, 2013 - Author(s): , Rajeev Chandrasekhar
Half of humanity - 3.5 billion people - live in urban areas today. (...)
Category: Summer 2013 Junior Associates Program: Economic Development
[Job] - Posted by: Edna Osebe - Thu 18 Apr, 2013
The Asia Foundation’s Economic Development (ECON) unit seeks a Junior Associate (JA) to work in our San Francisco, CA office during the summer of 2013. The ECON JA will work primarily with the ECON Associate Director and Senior Program Officer on a series of internal and program-based projects.
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Category: Grant Awards for the use of global health, poverty & development, education and information - The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Posted by: Edna Osebe - Wed 17 Apr, 2013 - Author(s):
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (B&MGF or the Gates Foundation) is the largest transparently operated private foundation in the world, founded by Bill and Melinda Gates. (...)
Category: Economic development must be environmentally sustainable
[News] - Posted by: Edna Osebe - Thu 11 Apr, 2013 - Author(s):
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has warned that environmental degradation could have serious consequences emphasizing that economic growth should be based on optimal use of natural resources and development must be environmentally sustainable.
Often, he regretted, “economic policies designed to promote growth have been implemented without considering their full environmental consequences, presumably on the assumption that these consequences would either take care of themselves or could be dealt with separately.”
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Often, he regretted, “economic policies designed to promote growth have been implemented without considering their full environmental consequences, presumably on the assumption that these consequences would either take care of themselves or could be dealt with separately.”
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Category: Urban renewal important to Colorado’s downtowns
[News] - Posted by: Edna Osebe - Mon 8 Apr, 2013 - Author(s): , John R. Batey
As a native of Colorado who has worked in planning, community development and redevelopment for over a decade, I am a passionate believer in the importance of economically healthy and vibrant urban core areas.
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Category: City Green launches Learning Farm development effort
[News] - Posted by: Ed Kerry - Mon 8 Apr, 2013 - Author(s): , Harvy Lipman
City Green, the Clifton non-profit that encourages urban farming and community garden plots along with environmental education, has broken ground and begun a fundraising effort for its new learning farm in Clifton.
Located at Schultheis Farm on Grove Street, the learning farm will be a center supporting education in areas such as environmental awareness, sustainable agriculture and healthy food.
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Located at Schultheis Farm on Grove Street, the learning farm will be a center supporting education in areas such as environmental awareness, sustainable agriculture and healthy food.
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