During a time of budget challenges, the Washington, D.C. government has needed to increase appropriations to the public safety and justice title while reducing appropriations to other municipal services. The need to increase policing costs by $1 million to $469.7 million in fiscal year 2012 diverges from the city’s efforts to improve underserved neighborhoods through urban renewal. Although the...

2. Government has undertaken its own urban renewal projects for many years. The Hong Kong Housing Society (HS) started its Urban Improvement Scheme in 1974. In 1988, the Land Development Corporation (LDC) was established to speed up the process of urban renewal. The Housing Authority (HA) has also played an important role in urban renewal, in particular by redevelopment of its own estates and a...

the iranian government has placed new emphasis on urban renewal through participatory approaches in recent years. the main target areas are called deteriorated urban fabrics, characterized by micro-lots, impenetrability, and lack of sustainability. in tehran, renovation of deteriorate urban fabrics has been initiated through dedicated neighborhood facilitation offices. this paper analyzes the a...

This paper presents a summary of work that was done by the civic governments of Calgary and Edmonton that addressed the question of suburban development, infrastructure growth and rehabilitation and their financing given limited funding. In the 1980's and 1990s, Canadian federal and provincial governments became concerned about the state of their respective finances. They responded by introduci...

TOPIC This contribution describes a personal recovery journey and highlights the importance of growth and renewal of self-determination as a critical part of recovery from mental health challenges. PURPOSE Five factors that foster the development of self-determination are highlighted and include access to information about treatment and rehabilitation options and resources, support from trust...

The efficient long term management of large-scale public funded assets is an area of growing importance. Ageing infrastructure, growth, and limited capital all result in the need for more robust and rigorous methodology to prioritise rehabilitation and renewal decisions and more importantly, to forecast future expenditure requirements. The overall objective of this research is to develop a Baye...