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Decoding Subnational Climate Budgeting in Maharashtra, India

The City Fix

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) recently launched Mumbai’s first-ever climate budget, making it the first city in India and the fourth in the world (after Oslo, New York and London) to launch a climate budget. While Mumbai works to expand and institutionalize their.

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Community Engagement Trends for 2025

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However, there are challenges to consider, including resource constraints , equity issues , and sustainability concerns. For instance, this could include helping people visualise projects that includes urban planning and new playgrounds. This is while also ensuring that compensation structures remain fair and transparent.

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Paris mayor plans to triple SUV parking tariffs to cut air pollution

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

22 years ago, with the election of Anthony Williams as mayor of DC, there was a reinvigoration of the urban planning function in the city. The first big initiative was to do "neighborhood plans" for each neighborhood area. We invite them to use other means of transport, there are alternatives.” And my neighborhood was the first.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Three | Planning for Climate Change

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Parks with extraordinary environmental features face big losses in the face of sustained heat. From " Designing urban parks that ameliorate the effects of climate change ," Landscape and Urban Planning : During heat waves now and in the future urban microclimates put human health at risk. Denver Post.

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Paris’ Vision for a ’15-Minute City’ Sparks a Global Movement

The City Fix

Until just a few years ago, the right riverbank of the Seine in Paris was an urban highway used by over 40,000 vehicles every day. Despite being named a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the road was either heavily gridlocked during rush.

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Incrementalism as a concept of iterative improvement in government project development no longer a legitimate public administration theory

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

That even so, transit (and sustainable mobility) is what distinguishes DC from the suburbs and that you need more of it to continue to differentiate DC as a place to choose to live and conduct business. Incrementalism has been fruitfully applied to explain domestic policy making, foreign policy making, and public budgeting.

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National Volunteer Week: April 16th-22nd

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It’s good business' " One of the many regrets I have is not getting a PhD in planning. My intended thesis was around urban planning and civic participation and engagement, because local land use issues are the issue most likely to get people involved in local civic affairs, other than having children and being involved in education issues.