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This entry has been realised in the framework of the H2020-MSCA-RISE-2018 project "LoGov - Local Government and the Changing Urban-Rural Interplay". LoGov aims to provide solutions for local governments that address the fundamental challenges resulting from urbanisation. To address this complex issue, 18 partners from 17 countries and six continents share their expertise and knowledge in the realms of public law, political science, and public administration. LoGov identifies, evaluates, compares, and shares innovative practices that cope with the impact of changing urban-rural relations in five major local government areas: (1) local responsibilities and public services, (2) local financial arrangements, (3) structure of local government, (4) intergovernmental relations of local governments, and (5) people's participation in local decision-making. The present entry addresses local responsibilities and public services in Argentina. The entry forms part of the LoGov Report on Argentina. To access the full version of the report on Argentina, other practices regarding responsibilities and public services and to receive more information about the project, please visit: https://www.logov-rise.eu/. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 823961.

"City Planning: A Very Short Introduction gives an international overview of progress in city planning over the last century. City planning explores the tension between the idea of cities as individually held land-parcels and as representations of community and identity. It has inevitable political and ethical dimensions. Over time, cities have grown and merged, leading to larger-scale thinking about planning, but it remains a regional discipline. Part of city planning involves making cities more resilient to natural disasters and civil conflict. Data, technological developments, commerce, and efficient functioning are important, but human connection is necessary for cities to survive"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of boxes -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: city planning in India -- 2 Shifts and transitions: legacies of pre-independence planning -- 3 Efforts to build a modern nation: planning from 1947 to the late 1960s -- 4 Paper plans meet the actual ground: 1960s-1980s -- 5 Post-liberalization planning: 1985-2005 -- 6 Recent planning efforts: 2005-2017 -- Appendix -- References -- Index.

The European Landscape Convention, with great determination, has placed as a priority target, the necessity to promote a high level of attention to the landscape, as a common asset. According to the Convention each part of the landscape conveys meanings: the areas of particular beauty, daily life landscapes and degraded ones. The evidence of this changed reading is the "Law on the Cultural Heritage and Landscape" (DLgs 22 n. 42 of 2004), which in the 2008 version (Dlgs. n. 63) embrace even the principles of the European Landscape Convention, which Italy ratified in 2006. If the Territorial Landscape Plan and the Territorial Coordination Plan have the useful role of containing guidelines, directives and safeguard provisions for the areas with landscape value, the Urban City Plans are the most appropriate tool to allow a planning which is respectful of landscape requirements. As a consequence, the urban city planning has to investigate the values of the landscape decoding both its specific and relational characters. The proposed landscape decoding method, already experimented with different scales of planning, offers a possible key to read and interpret the landscape in order to orient the Government projects on territorial-land transformations, which must be linked to protection, redevelopment and enhancement.

"The Power of Culture in City Planning focuses on human diversity, strengths, needs, and ways of living together in geographic communities. The book turns attention to the anthropological definition of culture, encouraging planners in both urban and cultural planning to focus on characteristics of humanity in all their variety. It calls for a paradigm shift, re-positioning city planners' "base maps" to start with a richer understanding of human cultures. Borrup argues for cultural master plans in parallel to transportation, housing, parks, and other specialized plans, while also changing the approach of city comprehensive planning to put people or "users" first rather than land "uses" as does the dominant practice. Cultural plans as currently conceived are not sufficient to help cities keep pace with dizzying impacts of globalization, immigration, and rapidly changing cultural interests. Cultural planners need to up their game and enriching their own and city planners' cultural competencies is only one step. Both planning practices have much to learn from one another and already overlap in more ways than most recognize. This book highlights some of the strengths of the lesser-known practice of cultural planning to help forge greater understanding and collaboration between the two practices, empowering city planners with new tools to bring about more equitable communities. This will be an important resource for students, teachers, and practitioners of city and cultural planning, as well as municipal policy makers of all stripes"--

"The Power of Culture in City Planning focuses on human diversity, strengths, needs, and ways of living together in geographic communities. The book turns attention to the anthropological definition of culture, encouraging planners in both urban and cultural planning to focus on characteristics of humanity in all their variety. It calls for a paradigm shift, re-positioning city planners' "base maps" to start with a richer understanding of human cultures. Borrup argues for cultural master plans in parallel to transportation, housing, parks, and other specialized plans, while also changing the approach of city comprehensive planning to put people or "users" first rather than land "uses" as does the dominant practice. Cultural plans as currently conceived are not sufficient to help cities keep pace with dizzying impacts of globalization, immigration, and rapidly changing cultural interests. Cultural planners need to up their game and enriching their own and city planners' cultural competencies is only one step. Both planning practices have much to learn from one another and already overlap in more ways than most recognize. This book highlights some of the strengths of the lesser-known practice of cultural planning to help forge greater understanding and collaboration between the two practices, empowering city planners with new tools to bring about more equitable communities. This will be an important resource for students, teachers, and practitioners of city and cultural planning, as well as municipal policy makers of all stripes"--

Cover -- About Island Press -- Subscribe -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Case Studies -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1: The Background and Theory of Biophilic Cities -- Chapter 1: The Power of Urban Nature: The Essential Benefits fo Biophilic Urbanism -- Chapter 2: Understanding the Nature of Biophilic Cities -- Chapter 3: The Urban Nature Diet: The Many Ways That Nature Enhances Urban Life -- Chapter 4: Biophilic Cities and Urban Resilience -- Part 2: Creating Biophilic Cities: Emerging Global Practice -- Chapter 5: Singapore City, Singapore: City in a Garden -- Chapter 6: Milwaukee, Wisconsin: From Cream City to Green City -- Chapter 7: Wellington, New Zealand: From Town Belt to Blue Belt -- Chapter 8: Birmingham, United Kingdom: Health, Nature, and Urban Economy -- Chapter 9: Portland, Oregon: Green Streets in a River City -- Chapter 10: San Francisco, California: Biophilic Bity by the Bay -- Chapter 11: Oslo, Norway: A City of Fjords and Forests -- Chapter 12: Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain: Nature in the Compact City -- Part 3: A Global Survey of Innovative Practice and Projects -- I: Biophilic Plans and Codes -- II: Citizen Science and Community Engagement -- III: Biophilic Architecture and Design -- IV: Restoring and Reintroducing Nature into the City -- V: Other Biophilic Urban Strategies -- Part 4: Success and Future Directions -- Chapter 13: Lessons from the World's Emerging Biophilic Cities -- Chapter 14: Overcoming the Obstacles and Challenges That Remain -- Chapter 15: Conclustions: Reimagining Cities of the Future -- Resources -- References -- Index -- IP Board of Directors