22-April-2015
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National Urban Policies have been recognised internationally as a tool for the implementation and monitoring of global urban agendas, such as the Sustainable Development Goals, Paris Agreement and Sendai Framework. The OECD stresses the importance of collaboration across all levels of government, civil society, the private sector and other key players when designing and implementing national urban policies.
22-April-2015
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Webpage highlighting the main issues and challenges governments face when undertaking public investment projects, and OECD resources to guide them when undertaking public investment projects.
22-April-2015
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Cooperation between the local, regional and national governments is crucial if coherent land-use practices are to develop in a socially, environmentally, and financially sustainable way. This webpage highlights the challenges and ways forward for the governance of land use.
18-April-2015
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China needs a new model of urbanisation to match the shift to a new model of growth. For decades, both urbanisation and growth have been based on robust export demand, cheap labour, cheap land and artificially low pricing of environmental externalities. None of these can support growth or urban development in the future.
13-April-2015
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13-March-2015
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18-February-2015
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This chapter begins with a brief socio-economic and institutional overview of the Puebla-Tlaxcala metropolitan region. It then explores the current status of inter-municipal collaboration in two major sectors for urban development: transport and land use. Finally, it reviews existing metropolitan collaboration tools.
18-February-2015
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This chapter studies the governance of the Frankfurt metropolitan area. It focuses on public transport and spatial planning issues. It provides an overview of the economic conditions in the metropolitan area and analyses the role of the regional association of municipalities (Regionalverband FrankfurtRheinMain) and the state of Hesse for metropolitan governance.
18-February-2015
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This chapter begins with a brief socio-economic and institutional overview of the Daejeon metropolitan region. It then explores the current status of inter-municipal collaboration in two major sectors for urban development: transport and land use. Finally, it reviews existing metropolitan collaboration tools.