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    Fighting motor madness: rethinking urban transport through a poverty lens

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How should planners respond to increased travel demand in the developing world’s burgeoning cities? Can transport policies contribute to poverty reduction? What is the impact of government expenditure on transport infrastructure? What are the health and education outcomes of improvements / deterioration in transport conditions?
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    Improving urban transport systems: towards a pro-poor, user-centred approach

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How should we judge whether a transport system is facilitating or hindering the economic development of a city in a developing country? Can a sustainable livelihoods approach help to better plan transport services for low-income communities in urban areas?
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    Access for all: the delivery of water and sanitation in urban Bangladesh

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Do the poorest households have access to clean water at a price they can afford? Are the new sanitation services available to the poorest? To what extent are the poorest included in community based management? A study by Planning Alternatives for Change and Pathway assesses whether WaterAid Bangladesh’s Urban Programme benefits the urban poor of slums in Dhaka and Chittagong.
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    More than just a place to live: shelter and livelihoods of the urban poor

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What are the consequences of lacking formal tenure to the place where you live? Can a livelihoods approach help us understand the difficulties faced by the urban poor in seeking secure land and shelter? Could new tenure arrangements reduce insecurity and widen access to credit for those without conventional collateral?
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    Urban reforms in China: improving housing for the poor?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How have economic reforms affected housing provision for China’s urban poor? Has the recent introduction of low-rent social housing benefited unskilled industrial workers laid off by bankrupt state enterprise? Are migrants from rural areas able to access available assistance? Should their presence in cities be legalised?
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    Clearer codes for cleaner cities.Cross-matching policy to curb pollution in China

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    China has environmental laws and the apparatus to enforce them, yet regulations are frequently ignored. South Bank University researchers investigated major pollution concerns in Wuhan, one of China’s biggest industrial cities.
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    Left on the back burner: time to put energy onto the urban planning agenda?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Could more efficient use of energy have an impact on poverty alleviation? What changes in energy use patterns are likely to generate the greatest benefits for the poor? What are the constraints on the uptake of energy efficiency measures? Can they be overcome?
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    Child’s play? Involving young people in urban planning and environmental management

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How can young people be involved in creating more livable cities? Can the noble participation principles set forth in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Agenda 21 of the Earth Summit, and Habitat II be realised? What is being done to help young people, especially children in difficult circumstances, to get their voices heard by policy-makers?
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    Better urban planning? Spotlight on Bangkok

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How can integrative analysis (IA) of city systems improve understanding of the links between environmental and social problems? Can this analysis inform future decision- making? Collaborative research by the Australian National University and Mahidol University, Thailand, uses IA to analyse environmental problems, land use, and behaviour patterns in Bangkok.
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    Demand responsive urban planning: neighbourhood participation in infrastructure improvement

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Can the twin developmental goals of administrative decentralisation and improving services for the urban poor be meshed? How can urban authorities and local politicians learn to listen to service users, particularly women? What services should be run by municipalities and what could be managed by neighbourhood or private management?

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