The Art Institute of Chicago's new wing will be 'the most significant new civic building constructed in downtown Chicago since our original Michigan Avenue building opened in 1893,' said James Cuno, president and director of the Art Institute of Chicago. Cuno spoke these exuberant words at the wing's groundbreaking ceremony on May 31, 2005. At the climax of this event, the assembled dignitaries, including the mayor of Chicago and his wife, pulled a rope that fired masses of confetti into the air more...
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The Public Building Commission of Chicago (PBC) is committed to improving the environmental quality of life for all Chicagoans. The PBC also strives to support Mayor Richard M. Daley's effort to make Chicago the most environmentally friendly city in America, by ensuring that 'green' building strategies are integrated into the design phase of every project.
In June 2004, the PBC unveiled the Morgan Park (22nd District) Police Station, a state-of-the-art-facility that aims to be the first LEED (L more...
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The World Bank conducts rigorous research on climate change to guide its operational strategies and offer better advice to member countries. An important aspect of this research agenda is its focus on adaptation to climate change – an issue that has received increasing attention since Kyoto. For most United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) parties with relatively low emissions, adaptation is the critical challenge in framing policies that respond to climate change.
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'22 May 2008: The renaissance of the city is a hot topic in Europe. But what does the term renaissance mean? Generally it designates the renaissance of the inner city, the complex, mixed used inner city. The term renaissance is often applied to the city center only. Is such a perception appropriate? Does it mean that suburbanization is in decline? I assume that European cities have turned into urban regions, which will change drastically in the future.'
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'Are you happy? provides a thumbnail guide to the history of new economics and the current work of the new economics foundation. It asks the biggest question facing humanity - do good lives have to cost the earth? - and finds that the answer lies in a new type of economics, economics as if people and the planet mattered.'
This is a New Economics Foundation's (nef's) paper, published in November 2006. PDF format, 31 pp. In English
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'Much attention has been focused on rural areas, yet the contribution post offices make to urban areas has been overlooked. In fact, post offices in urban areas have borne the brunt of recent closures. The last post provides new evidence of the vital social and economic role of urban sub post offices. The report says that they play a particularly valuable role in deprived urban areas, and outlines the new threats that they now face from changes to the post office network.'
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'Community Development Finance Institutions (CDFIs) first came to prominence in the UK around ten years ago as means of providing loans to people and enterprises excluded from mainstream finance.
The report, Reconsidering UK community development finance, released the 2007 annual conference of the Community Development Finance Association - the umbrella body for CDFIs - finds that the future of CDFIs is uncertain as government and policy-makers have begun to question whether CDFIs have meas more...
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