The increasing threat of climate change has created a pressing need for cities to lower their
carbon footprints. Urban laboratories are emerging in numerous cities around the world as a …

This article aims to address the disconnect between housing and rural development
research. We do this by examining models of rural development (exogenous, endogenous …

The literature in policy analysis has traditionally incorporated a wide range of foci; for
example, in the study of policy institutions, policy processes and policy outcomes (Parsons …

Performing Governance sets out a new framework to assess the performance of
partnerships and examines what these actually deliver. This is applied to three areas of New …

Lexical assessment and lexical accommodation in oral examinations are new research
dimensions, which have both theoretical and empirical values, however they are still much …

Traffic noise is one of the most prominent environmental stressors in cities. It often results in
cardiorespiratory diseases among urban dwellers and thus counteracts important urban …

Conservation principles and sustainability play a vital role in the practice of building
adaptive reuse. Building adaptive reuse is a significant strategy for promoting sustainable …

Les dirigeants de nombreuses villes britanniques ont tenté de reproduire un «effet Bilbao»
sur leur territoire en développant une politique de renouveau urbain centré sur la culture …

There are broadly three positions a national government can take towards its cities. The first
is to overlook them. The second is to see them as a source of problems that need fixing. The …

This paper sets out to provide an illustrative discussion of emergent and somewhat
decentralised urban uplift through a lens of entrepreneurial urbanism. Informal interventions …