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PEOPLE AND PLACES - An Overview of Urban Renewal

This Cities Alliance overview aims at promoting an understanding of and debate around urban regeneration in South Africa. The paper can provide inspiration for performance indicators on regeneration.

Measuring Sustainable Urban Regeneration Performance – case studies

Sites upgrading and local regeneration can be used as part of a strategy to improve attractiveness for both businesses and labor. This paper uses case studies from three European cities to assess the sustainability of current urban regeneration practice. The case studies can provide examples of performance indicators on regeneration.

Measuring Sustainable Urban Regeneration Performance

Sites upgrading and local regeneration can be used as part of a strategy to improve attractiveness for both businesses and labor.This paper evaluates the use of indicators as a means of measuring the performance of regeneration against sustainability criteria.

Economic Regeneration Definitions Manual

This manual provides data sources and exact definitions of themes used in the Local Government Association’s (UK) 'Audit Commission Economic Regeneration Indicators’.

Economic Regeneration Indicators

The Local Government Association (UK) has issued a set of more than 100 quantified indicators to assess the effectiveness of economic regeneration and development activities. Although obviously designed for a first world context, they nevertheless offer substantial inspiration for LED practitioners in developing countries.

Town Centre Regeneration Fund (Capital Fund, Programme Design)

The Scottish Government is responding to the economic slowdown with a package of measures and a FUND to support the revitalisation of towns and cities in Scotland. The project, just announced is an example of how to structure and administer regeneration funds.

Economic Regeneration A guide to national & local indicators

This manual, whilst targetted at English local government economic development practitioners is helpful to give a framework on indicators and how to measure within the UK context- it can inform thinking on trying to set indicators especially for measuring LED strategies. Produced by the UK Audit Commission.

10 City Local Economic Development Programme Central African Republic

The one-year project, funded to the tune of USD 1 million, is aimed at reigniting sustainable local economic development in 10 cities to improve housing deficiencies, the environment, infrastructure, basic social services and security in the local authorities.

UN-HABITAT and the European Union have launched a new infrastructure development project in the Central African Republic as part of a programme aimed at strengthening the capacities of local authorities, the agency announced on Thursday.

I have over these last days been approached about how LEDNA members are addressing the current economic problems facing all of us, so here s a start to the conversation.

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Cities Outlook 2009 [English Cities]

This is one of the first reports to address the impact the 2008 recession will have on English cities. It offers ideas on comparative analysis, and uses indicators to compare past and future city economic performance. Clearly more data is available in England than in most LEDNA countries, but it gives ideas and perspectives.

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