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| Main projects driven along the last 18 months |
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(updated March 1st, 2006)
| • MOROCCO |
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IAURIF started on April 2005 a 2-years consultancy
in Casablanca with the Urban Agency, in order to update the Master
Plan and to prepare a development plan for the coastal area in this
major city.The first phase (global diagnosis and evaluation) of the
Master Plan is on way to be completed. The development plan for the
coastal area should be completed on June 2006. |
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• LEBANON  |
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The next issue of our review, “Cahiers de l’IAURIF” (n°144) will give a broad overview of the actions driven in this country
since…1965 !! The issue will be divided into three main sections
: the Reconstruction “Saga”, the territories, and several
cross – remarks looking back to such a long-term experience.
N°144 is to be published around March 20, 2006. |
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| • CHINA
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IAURIF has participated into the technical seminar "Urban
Planning at Urban Age", organized on July, 2005, in Shanghai
by the Centre for Urban & Regional Studies of the Academy of Social
Sciences. |
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| • CAMBODIA |
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As the program of technical assistance for the preparation
of the new master plan of Phnom Penh is now completed, a book about “Planning & Development
in Phnom Penh” is now underway. IAURIF takes in charge the
general editing of the book and will provide several papers. The
book is to be published on October 2006 in Phnom Penh.It should be
also emphasized that the Municipality of Phnom Penh won the World
Leadership Awards (section : Urban renewal) in London last December,
2005. |
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| • IRAN
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A short-term mission was driven on April, 2005, in
order to realize an evaluation of the present Master Plan of the
capital
city of Iran, in cooperation with the City of Paris Urban Planning
Agency. |
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| • MEXICO
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As a representative of the French National Federation
of the Urban Agencies (see below), IAURIF has assisted the Mexican
Association of Municipal Urban Planning Agencies in order to organize
a professional training session at the Queretaro Planning
Institute on December, 2004, about "the ways to manage the
urban mobility". |
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| • FNAU |
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IAURIF is a member of the French National Federation
of the Urban Agencies, which regroups the 49 existing agencies in
France. This includes the management & leadership of the “International
Group”, one of the clubs working about various topics (urban
projects, regulations, communication, etc.) within the Federation.
An
e-newsletter is now published (in French) by the International
Group, giving news about the international activities of the agencies
: if interested to receive it, contact gilles.antier@iaurif.org.More
information is also available on the site www.fnau.org (an
English version of the website is to be launched in 2006). |
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| • UNESCO
/ ICOMOS |
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IAURIF drives regular short-term expert missions about
the landscape heritage, in the framework of the Unesco World Heritage
Agreement. The last field mission (March, 2005) was held in Budapest,
in order to drive an environmental and landscape assessment of several
infrastructure projects over the historical core of the Hungarian
capital city. |
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| Recent reports |
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>Managing the developing cities : new practices
December 2001
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As the theme of urban governance
is becoming more and more a recurrent one, this volume includes various
syntheses of studies mostly driven abroad in this field by IAURIF
since 1995.
A first part deals with the tools and structures in charge of monitoring
urban development : urban and regional agencies in Morocco, Cambodia
and Senegal, observatories and GIS in Algeria and Morocco, remote
sensing imagery in Philippines. |
After a second part dedicated to several
transportation issues in Beirut, Cairo, Irkoutsk and Hanoi, a
third one approaches some new metropolitan and regional issues
in Lebanon, Santiago de Chile, and Shanghai. This 104 pages widely
illustrated volume is fully translated in english.
Order
(with this reference 1001615) |
>GIS for involvement and decision-making : 30 french experiences
June 2001
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A growing number of french
local authorities are setting up a Geographical Information System
(GIS) in order to better manage their territory. The aim of this
casebook is above all to constitute a collection of practical and
successfull partnership experiences implemented by some local authorities
of all sizes in France.
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| The diversified french knowhow
in the field of GIS is illustrated by its uses as an urban management
instrument and a method of informing and involving the public through
networks. A special focus is also given on the concrete aspects of
transport and environment issues. This 120 pages widely illustrated
volume is fully translated in english. |
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