The outputs depict an overall resource landscape of the studied urban area, but also provide the energy, water, and other resource balance of supply and demand from both macro and micro perspectives, which is used to propose environmental friendly and cost effective sustainable city development strategies.
But the homogeneity of city-development strategies also owes much to the British government's enduring top-down approach to local government.
Using renovated buildings outfitted with high-speed internet, the Tennessee city's development strategy is designed to bring young tech start-ups downtown.
For housing to contribute to the urban premium, it should be situated within a broader city-wide development strategy, with density, connectivity and diversity as core objectives.
"The challenge is that now it's only a study and the recommendations have to be implemented," Mr. Herbert said of the city's new development strategy.
He also has pushed the city's economic development strategy beyond big real estate deals to include smaller entrepreneurial initiatives and a number of growing industries.
Though model redevelopment agencies (such as San Francisco's) have funneled token support to such programs, why not make them the cornerstone of every city's economic development strategy?
Therefore, to plug the short-term gap before English players can start to come through, City's youth development strategy has adopted a more international flavour, with youngsters from overseas such as Marcos Lopes (Portugal), Karim Rekik (Netherlands) and Luca Scapuzzi (Italy) among those to have been signed since 2011.
But the creation of living wage jobs must be part of the city's economic development strategy moving forward.
New York, which will host the UN Climate Summit on September 23, has been a leading example of a city with a sustainable development strategy, PlaNYC -- initiated by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg -- and a dedicated office to make the city more resilient to extreme weather and other climate impacts.
