[SustainableTompkins] shaping livable cities report from the IDRC in Canada

[Tony Del Plato]

Thank you very much Maura for this. I have friends working in Internat Devel
who, if they haven't seen this already, will surely appreciate this.
Tony Del Plato


On 8/11/06, Maura Stephens <mstephens at ithaca.edu> wrote:
>
> Shaping Livable Cities [pdf]
> http://www.idrc.ca/uploads/user-S/11502208271CRA_WUF_ENG_FINAL.pdf
>
> Thinking about policy solutions for urban regions is a great deal easier
> than actually putting them into action, and that is why this latest report
> from The International Development Research Centre in Canada is most
> welcome. This recently released 36-page report starts off with this
> important sentence: "They [cities] are engines of economic growth and
> cultural prosperity, but they are also centres of pollution and poverty."
> Divided into three substantive chapters, the report provides specific case
> studies of various urban innovations, such as Beijing's urban agriculture
> initiatives and a program designed to integrate agriculture into municipal
> planning in Kampala, Uganda. Other studies draw on experiences in
> Vancouver,
> Hyderabad, and Managua. Overall, the report is well written and may be of
> great interest to persons in the fields of international development as
> well
> as scholars interested in evaluating such programs.
>
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