Sentences with phrase «urban policy making»

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The main outcome of Habitat III was that UN nation states agreed on the New Urban Agenda (NUA): a non-binding document, which will guide policies over the next 20 years with the goal of making cities safer, resilient and sustainable and their amenities more inclusive.

The cost of the credits to the federal government makes them controversial, however, says Joseph Rosenberg, senior research associate at the Tax Policy Center, a non-partisan tax group run by the Urban Institute and Brookings.

Megan Randall, a researcher at the Urban Institute who studies economic development policy, said companies cared most about a talented work force, which requires good schools and colleges, and amenities like affordable housing, parks and public transit that make a place desirable.

Mr. Carras is of the view that the swift pace of new condo construction in Toronto is simply making up for the decline in construction of single - family homes that is occurring in part because of government policies designed to restrict urban sprawl and promote downtown intensification.

The new cabinet is largely comprised of ministers from urban ridings, which means the government will have to make a concerted effort to ensure the importance of rural communities to the Canadian economy is properly reflected in their policies.

In a speech at the Progressive Policy - Institute, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros made a remarkable statement about what community means for «a modern, big American city and its relationship with a big Washington bureaucracy.»

Uribe's hawkish policy weakened the FARC considerably, including by killing some of the group's leadership figures, and it made urban areas safer.

The contrast in rural and urban voting may reflect a legacy of Uribe's presidency: His Democratic Security Policy made Colombia's cities safer and pushed the conflict toward the peripheries.

These disparate voting patterns in cities across the country point to the distinct concerns and outlook of different urban areas, driven by divergent economic fortunes — and therefore the need for greater variation in policy - making to address the needs of different places.

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If David Cameron and George Osborne want to succeed in making the Conservative Party credible on the economy — and appealing to urban voters outside the South of England — they must produce a credible policy on cities.

The work applies expertise in ecology, hydrology, geography, and the social sciences to decision - making about urban landscapes and the valuation of ecosystem services, among other policy issues.

Understanding how birds move through urban areas will help urban planners and policy makers to make cities better places to live.»

The leadership of an urban district should make the following offer to the state's policy makers:

A behavioral argument could also be made: that the state's reform policies, its public shaming and sanctions for low - performing schools, would most strongly influence the behavior of urban districts, which tend to have a history of low performance and mismanagement.

Our papers in Educational Policy show that CBAs in larger districts tend to regulate far more elements of district decision - making, and CBAs in urban areas are more restrictive with respect to what administrators can and can not do than in smaller or non-urban areas.

Urban schools reinforce the student perception that teachers bear final responsibility for what they learn.By allowing passive witnesses, the schools support these student perceptions that all relationships are (indeed rewarding) students for being essentially authoritarian rather than mutual.As youth see the world, they are compelled to go to school while teachers are paid to be there.Therefore, it is the job of the teacher to make them learn.Every school policy and instructional decision which is made without involving students — and this is almost all of them — spreads the virus that principals and teachers rather than students must be the constituency held accountable for learning.In a very real sense students are being logical.In an authoritarian, top - down system with no voice for those at the bottom, why should those «being done to» be held accountable?

Changing governance arrangements clearly can make a difference in the way urban public school systems function, but such a strategy requires the right combination of ingredients - committed and skilled leadership by the mayor, willingness to use scarce resources, a stable coalition of supporters, appropriate education policies, and a cadre of competent, committed professionals to implement the reforms.

Curtis works with school systems, foundations, higher education and education policy organizations on a variety of topics including urban district improvement strategy, superintendent and principal leadership development, and how to make teaching a compelling and rewarding career.

These have made the difficulties in Michigan's low - income urban districts like Detroit even worse, according to David Arsen, professor of education policy in the MSU College of Education.

Her work broadly focuses on urban school reform, data - informed leadership for equity, and how educators make sense of policy implementation.

Our impact will ripple out beyond our 1,600 scholars, impacting policy and school decision - making in low - income urban districts across the state and country.

Although the series is now over a decade old, many of the recommendations made by the task forces are still relevant today, such as providing effective professional development for teachers and principals, professionalizing teaching, political and policy challenges like bipartisanship, and dispelling myths about the challenges of leading urban districts.

But Matt Chingos, director of the Urban Institute's Education Policy Program, says it would be premature to make a judgment on Common Core.

«In California, state law and local rules make it challenging for districts to reward their best teachers and remove their worst teachers,» said Dominic Brewer, a professor of urban policy the USC Rossier School.

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Pedro Noguera, an urban education professor at New York University, backs many of Anderson's policy decisions, but said change must be made through the community, not around it.

Malloy said the education proposals Foley made Wednesday as part of a larger urban agenda show that the Greenwich businessman has no grasp of current education policies and resources, nor does he appreciate how devastating it would be to urban school systems to begin denying funds to schools that need more resources.

In the next column, we'll look at the area of law enforcement through an urban policy lens, with an eye toward trying to figure out how cities can make our way in Trump's America.

RUEPI is a project at the UIC College of Education that is aimed at fostering more informed dialogue and decision - making about education policy in Chicago and other urban areas.

«I think at the margin it makes you less likely to do a home equity line of credit,» said Laurie Goodman, co-director of the Housing Finance Policy Center at the Urban Institute.

From governments and policy makers to community groups and individual urban dwellers, we are all part of making our city.

On Labour Day, Edmundo Werna makes the case for an extensive urban dialogue as a necessary condition for a proactive employment policy.

Dawn: Released by the World Bank, the report calls upon the government to make urban air quality improvement a priority in the country's policy agenda, noting that the issue has received little attention despite strong evidence indicating an urgent need to tackle pollution in major cities.

It really matters to making policy how much of the warming is from CO2, and how much is from methane, land use changes, urban island (asphalt, concrete, air conditioning, etc.), carbon black, solar changes (sun activity lower and heliosphere at low level), or the catch all — natural variability.

Urban Agriculture Policymaking, including modules on the integration of urban agriculture in policy making, establishment and functioning of a multi-stakeholder forum on urban agriculture and food, situation analysis of actual urban agriculture, joint development of a Strategic Action Agenda and other modUrban Agriculture Policymaking, including modules on the integration of urban agriculture in policy making, establishment and functioning of a multi-stakeholder forum on urban agriculture and food, situation analysis of actual urban agriculture, joint development of a Strategic Action Agenda and other modurban agriculture in policy making, establishment and functioning of a multi-stakeholder forum on urban agriculture and food, situation analysis of actual urban agriculture, joint development of a Strategic Action Agenda and other modurban agriculture and food, situation analysis of actual urban agriculture, joint development of a Strategic Action Agenda and other modurban agriculture, joint development of a Strategic Action Agenda and other modules.

Aspects include market analysis, enterprise development, development of short food chains and export - oriented chains, strengthening of input supply and service delivery, participatory innovation in urban farming, and multi-stakeholder planning and policy - making.

To make a difference, the rest of the country has to adopt responsible growth policies, eliminate further urban sprawl, promote bicycle and pedestrian access, and emphasize mass transit over the construction of new roads.

But many European cities have found the answer to be fairly simple: make it harder (and / or costlier) to park.According to a new study by the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, innovative parking policies in Europe are allowing cities to enjoy «revitalized town centers, big reductions in car use, drops in air pollution, and rising quality of urban life.»

It is really all about decisions made at the government level, mostly related to urban planning; in the USA after the second world war, it was official policy to decentralize everything to make the nation safer from Russian missiles.

2) How we can successfully combine and link the production of renewable energy (high tech) and the delivery of biodiversity with greenroofs (low tech) in urban areas together with the need to make global policies that are combined for cities to create a win - win situation.

Home in West Ohio: Middletown, OH Insurance Quotes for Homeowners Living next to all these bigger urban areas can make home policies in Middletown more expensive than those in some of the rural areas in Ohio's interior.

The sealing of the time capsule recently helped mark the organisation's 20th anniversary — see the post below, from VACCHO Senior Policy Officer Dana Pyne, including a fantastic video of a new mural painted on the VACCHO building which makes a big splash on the urban landscape about rich, vibrant Victorian Aboriginal cultures.

Professor Rosemary Calder, Director of the Australian Health Policy Collaboration, talks about the four elements she sees as key to any health policy framework: focus on risk factors, Amartya Sen's capability framework, regular measurement of population health and the transformational urban planning of Gil Penalosa that looks to make cities great for 8 and 80 yearPolicy Collaboration, talks about the four elements she sees as key to any health policy framework: focus on risk factors, Amartya Sen's capability framework, regular measurement of population health and the transformational urban planning of Gil Penalosa that looks to make cities great for 8 and 80 yearpolicy framework: focus on risk factors, Amartya Sen's capability framework, regular measurement of population health and the transformational urban planning of Gil Penalosa that looks to make cities great for 8 and 80 year olds.

Current policies may be making the affordable housing crisis worse, says Urban Land Institute senior fellow John McIlwain.

A federal court has considered how the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development's («HUD») recent clarification of its 1999 Statement of Policy affects a class - action lawsuit brought against a lender alleging RESPA violations for its practice of making yield - spread payments to mortgage brokers.

Fannie's new policy has added 100,000 new mortgages that wouldn't have otherwise been made last year and early this year, according to the Urban Institute.

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Property taxes make up about one quarter of home ownership costs over the median duration of ownership, according to a study by two researchers with the Urban - Brookings Tax Policy Center.

«This additional data makes a huge difference for their ability to qualify for a mortgage,» said Karan Kaul, a research associate at the Urban Institute, a non-profit organization that focuses on social and economic policy.