Governance tools for urban food system policy innovations in the Milano Urban Food Policy Pact

Tools for the Governance of Urban Design: The Tehran Experience

This research seeks to reflect the managerial, academic and professional experience of the  authors in the design and implementation process of urban design projects, aiming to use the application of the “design governance” model, in order to describe the documents and activities of the Department of Urban Planning and Architecture of Tehran Municipality in the last decade. This paper consists ...

Does Europe need a Food policy? A Food system approach to Public policy for Food in the European Union

Urban Growth Carriers; An Alternative Policy for Urban Growth Management in Iran

Like other developing countries, Iranian cities are growing and expanding physically at a high speed. For about five decades, the only policy of the urban development plans in the field of urban growth management has been definition of the Urban Growth Boundary (U.G.B.) which is still used without any major modifications.Despite the slight evidences indicating the ineffectiveness of the current...

Deserts in New Orleans? Illustrations of Urban Food Access and Implications for Policy

Food access among low-income populations has long been a concern in the United States. Recent research on the geographic dimensions of access has focused on economically deprived areas with little retail food activity, referred to as 'food deserts.' We illustrate concepts of urban food access in this descriptive case study from post-Katrina New Orleans. We augment conventional definitions of fo...

New Directions for Urban Policy

Contrary to the conventional diagnosis of urban problems, this article argues that these problems do not arise from the long-term trends in the decentralization of employment and population in metropolitan areas. Instead, the most important fiscal problems confronted by central-city governments and the most significant social and economic problems of central-city residents arise from increased ...