El Centro de Impulso al Desarrollo Integral de Regiones y Localidades (CEIDIR.ORG) ofrece acceso a actividades y servicios electrónicos a los interesados en temas de desarrollo económico y social en el ámbito local (por ejemplo a nivel municipal). Nuestro objetivo primordial es recabar, generar y difundir información sobre acciones de desarrollo endógeno o desde abajo ejecutadas en localidades alrededor del mundo. Los principales temas de interés son: La influencia de la globalización en el desarrollo local  El rol de la emprendeduría en el desarrollo local Inclusión social y desarrollo local Redes de intercambio y cooperación para el desarrollo local  Planeación estratégica para el desarrollo local. Medio ambiente y desarrollo local El documento 'El Enfoque de Desarrollo Económico Local desde Abajo de la A a la Z' sintetiza nuestra visión de desarrollo. El Enfoque de Desarrollo Local desde Abajo de la A a la Z. El menú lateral otorga acceso a la revista electrónica de CEIDIR y a información sobre nuestras consejerías y otros servicios. En el siguiente vínculo podrá conocer más detalles sobre nuestra organización: MISIÓN y OBJETIVOS Para solicitarnos información escríbanos a ceidir@netscape.net   ¡Con gusto lo atenderemos!   SÍGUENOS EN FACEBOOK  

The Policy Press, 15/02/2012 - 261 páginas This book investigates how the meanings and politics of urban sustainability are being radically rethought in response to the economic downturn and the credit crunch. In this ground-breaking contribution, prominent scholars provide up to date coverage of the impacts of recent changes on key areas of urban planning, including housing, transport, and the environment, and map out core areas for future research.

lexander C. T. Geppert.  Fleeting Cities: Imperial Expositions in Fin-de-Siecle Europe.  New York  Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.  424 pp. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-230-22164-2. Reviewed by Jill Steward (School of Historical Studies, Newcastle University) Published on H-Urban (March, 2012) Commissioned by Alexander Vari Laboratories for Scrutinizing Modernity: Imperial Exhibitions The great world and imperial exhibitions of the second half of the nineteenth century, sometimes described as one of the era's most distinctive products, were made possible by innovative technologies in transport, building, and communication and given the oxygen of publicity by the world's media industries. An urban phenomenon, they were visible signs of the transnational mobility of people, goods, and information made possible by technical innovation, industrial development, and commercial enterprise. Supported by the press, they contributed to the dissemination of knowledge and information across national boundaries and encouraged economic and cultural transfers. They made an enormous contribution to the growth of urban tourism and the spread of new and distinctively modern forms of visual culture and mass entertainment. It is not surprising therefore, that exhibitions could be seen not only as indications of modernity, but also its catalysts and agents. As we contemplate the intense media excitement aroused by the mega-events of our own time, notably the Olympic Games (which were merely sideshows at the 1900 Exhibition Universelle in Paris and the 1908 Franco-British Exhibition), we can understand the impact made by their nineteenth-century predecessors on the public imagination by the "fleeting cities" of the title of Alexander Geppert's study of imperial exhibitions, an allusion to Baudelaire's characterization of modernity as a set of representational practices embracing "the ephemeral, the fugitive, the contingent," which involved the temporary occupation of acres of

he Global Urban Competitiveness Report - 2011 Pengfei Ni Pengfei Ni, Director, Center for City and Competitiveness, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Professor of Economics, Institute of Finance and Trade Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China April 2012 416 pp Hardback 978 0 85793 421 5 Hardback c$175.00 on-line price c$157.50 Qty This book is also available as an ebook  978 1 78100 892 8 from - www.EBSCOhost.com www.ebrary.com/corp/ www.books.google.com/ebooks Description 'This Report - 2011 gives an overwhelming amount of comprehensive information for city managers trying to cope with the ever-increasing competition between cities in attracting investments, talent, firms, knowledge, events etc. Apart from an update of the ranking of 500 cities this new publication offers a lot of additional information, such as a selection of the best examples of competitive cities. The book is recommended for everybody interested in the strengths and weaknesses of the major cities in the world.' - Leo van den Berg, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands Contents Contents: 1. Annual Ranking 2. Conceptual Framework and Analytical Methods 3. Global Scale Urban Competitiveness Analyses 4. Urban Competitiveness Analyses of Sub-regions and Key Countries 5. Urban Competitiveness Analyses of Several Group of Cities 6. Econometric Findings 7. Best Cases on Competitive Cities 8. Global Urban Competitiveness Indices Bibliography Further information 'This Report - 2011 gives an overwhelming amount of comprehensive information for city managers trying to cope with the ever-increasing competition between cities in attracting investments, talent, firms, knowledge, events etc. Apart from an update of the ranking of 500 cities this new publication offers a lot of additional information, such as a selection of the best examples of competitive cities. The book is recommended for everybody interested in the strengths and weaknesses of the major citi

Creative Knowledge Cities Myths, Visions and Realities Marina van Geenhuizen , Peter Nijkamp Edited by Marina van Geenhuizen, Professor of Innovation and Innovation Policy in the Urban Economy, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands and Peter Nijkamp, Professor of Regional, Urban and Environmental Economics, Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands May 2012 488 pp Hardback 978 0 85793 284 6 Hardback $205.00 on-line price $184.50 Qty Series: New Horizons in Regional Science series This book is also available as an ebook  978 0 85793 285 3 from - www.EBSCOhost.com www.myilibrary www.ebooks.com www.ebookscorporation.com www.dawsonera.com www.ebrary.com/corp/ www.books.google.com/ebooks Description This book adopts a holistic, integrated and pragmatic approach to exploring the myths, concepts, policies, key conditions and tools for enhancing creative knowledge cities, as well as expounding potentially negative impacts of knowledge based city policies. Contents Contributors: V. Araujo, A. Caragliu, Y. Chen, M. de Jong, H. de Jonge, J. de Vries, C. Del Bo, A. den Heijer, J. Edelenbos, K. Erdos, A.M. Fernández-Maldonado, M. Fromhold-Eisebith, R. Garcia, D.-S. Lee, S. Lüthi, P. Nijkamp, B. Ó hUallacháin, R. Rocco, A. Romein, V. Scholten, D.P. Soetanto, M. Taheri, A. Thierstein, J.J. Trip, M. Trippl, M. van der Land, M. van Geenhuizen, A. Varga Further information This book adopts a holistic, integrated and pragmatic approach to exploring the myths, concepts, policies, key conditions and tools for enhancing creative knowledge cities, as well as expounding potentially negative impacts of knowledge based city policies. The authors provide a critical reflection on the reality of city concepts including university-city alignment for campus planning, labour market conditions, social capital and proximity, triple helix based transformation, and learning by city governments. Original examples from both the EU and US are complemented by detail

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Why Mix Urban Planning and Social Media? Contemporary urban planning uses many techniques to get people involved in a particular planning process. These techniques range from mail-in or telephone surveys to multiple-day design charrettes or open houses. The advent of social media, which is a set of tools found on the internet like blogs, forums, wikis, social networking sites, and collaborative software, is really exciting for the planning field. All of these tools can help communities think about, design, and build the kind of communities they want. Social media tools can also help planners and local governments stay in touch with people to make planning more effective and representative. This essay describes social media in more detail and tries to explain why people like to participate in social media. It also describes ways in which social media can help planning be more participatory. Nevertheless, there are some limits to social media. Hopefully you will find this article interesting! There are plenty of links and references to follow where you can learn more. - Daniella Fergusson