Housing futures 2024: a provocative look at future trends in housing
By Building Futures
Housing Futures 2024 opens up the debate about possible futures; six papers were commissioned to look at the future of housing from different perspectives. Four of the papers are presented as future scenarios set out as stories from a particular perspective. The other two papers point to potential outcomes. An introductory paper argues that housing is more than a simple equation of supply and demand, it is part of a consumer society, with a widening diversity of expectations. Housing should be offering diverse products but 'instead it seems to present more dull and unimaginative buildings; a proliferation of mediocrity'. Date: March 2004
Co-ordinating Interdependence: Governance and Social Policy Redesign in Britain, the European Union and Canada
By Denis Saint-Martin, CPRN
The notion of governance refers to the development of governing styles in which boundaries between and within public and private sectors have become blurred. The state can not longer assume a monopoly of either expertise or the resources necessary to govern, but needs to rely on a plurality of interdependent institutions and actors from with and beyond government. Date: May 2004
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Urban regeneration: Its role in shaping Portland's future
By the Portland Development Commission Renewal is a state-authorised, redevelopment and finance program designed to help communities improve and redevelop areas that are physically deteriorated, suffering economic stagnation, unsafe or poorly planned. The Portland Development Commission (PDC) uses urban regeneration as a tool to focus public attention and resources in blighted or underused areas to stimulate private investment and improve neighbourhood liveability. But how, exactly, has urban regeneration performed in Portland? How is it continuing to create new community facilities, open spaces and transportation options, as well as stimulate new jobs and housing opportunities in the Rose City? Date: January 2003
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