Core Areas Development A Guide to Good Practice
Introduction  Good Practice  Guide  Main Report  Publications   Country Studies    Brazil    Egypt    India    Indonesia  Partners		Introduction This programme provides guidelines for both urban design and frameworks, including urban management and finance tools, to facilitate the integrated and balanced development of commercial core areas of rapidly growing cities in the developing world. The good practice guide and associated software tools enable low-income communities to live close to the source of their livelihoods within commercial centres of these cities. This research was conducted in partnership with researchers in India, Indonesia and Brazil from 1997 to 2001. Outputs of this programme comprise: Good Practice Guide - The results of extensive research are brought together here as a series of topic-related Fact Sheets. They set the current urban scene for the specific topic each covers and suggest ways and means within that topic towards achieving sustainable mixed use core area development. Main Report - The report looks at the ways in which sustainable low-income housing and small business accommodation can be integrated with new commercial developments in a range of contexts. Publications - Contributions to a number of key publications/dissemination of research findings on the subject of good practice in core area development. Country Studies - The findings of extensive research and fieldwork. The research identified appropriate core area sites within each city and used detailed interviews with the resident low-income populations to investigate the social and economic nature of livelihoods in the core areas of cities. Video - Tells the shocking story through interviews over a three year 'before and after' period with many of the 12,000 citizens of Motia Khan squatter settlement during their clearance from the centre of Delhi and relocation to the outskirts far from their work and contacts. Livelihoods, income, education, social cohesion and inappropriate housing are forcefully discussed on site by the people affected. A CD Rom containing all downloadable files on this website, including a MPEG version of the video, is available on request. A separate DVD version is also available by contacting the Max Lock Centre. All of these outputs, with the exception of the video, may be downloaded from this site. Last Updated: 15 February, 2008
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