Metropolitan strategies in Australia

A continuing issue in metropolitan strategic plans is how much of them will be implemented. This appears to depend on how far planners are able to understand and shape the future of the city; whether appropriate planning and decision-making frameworks and mechanisms exist or can be put in place for making proposals happen; and what kind of methodology, content and process is used in preparing a plan. These themes are employed to analyse the way four of the major issues attending the future of Sydney are dealt with in the recently released metropolitan strategy ‘City of Cities’, and in subsequent statements and plans. These are economic development and its spatial representation, housing, water management and use, and transportation. The first two of these represent innovative exercises in the linking of economic activity and living with land use, density and location. The second two reflect more abstract challenges in framing proposals to acknowledge the increasing constraints of natural resources upon which the city depends. The review ends by suggesting that changes to the planning process would improve the chances of implementation, and the effectiveness of the outcomes

Bedrock geology of southeast Iowa, Digital geologic map of Iowa, Phase 7: Southeast Iowa

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Bedrock geology of southwest Iowa, Digital geologic map of Iowa, Phase 5: Southwest Iowa

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Bedrock geology of east-central Iowa, Digital geologic map of Iowa, Phase 6: East-Central Iowa

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Bedrock geology of south-central Iowa, Digital geologic map of Iowa, Phase 4: South-Central Iowa

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Metropolitan planning Australia : urban consolidation.

Urban consolidation is a major issue on the agenda of Australian cities. The significance of this is explored in the three papers in this collection. Richard Cardew reviews the papers by Troy and Bunker, introducing some additional considerations with particular reference to Sydney. He sees urban consolidation as an ongoing process which will continue with metropolitan growth and rising land values. However, he argues, the flats boom and the massive increase in household formation - shown in trends in headship ratios - which occurred in the 1960s and 1970s are unlikely to reoccur. The era of most rapid consolidation is past. Pat Troy offers the most critical view of present urban consolidation policies. He questions many of the benefits claimed for consolidation, in particular the assumption that it will lower requirements for public sector investment in infrastructure through more efficient use of area services such as schools and hospitals, and network services such as water, sewerage, power, transportation and communication. He argues that these and other assumed benefits are based on demographic trends unlikely to be realised, and on infrastructure savings which are illusory. Troy is especially critical of the claim that higher urban densities will lower the cost of housing, pointing out that multi-unit housing tends to be at the higher end of the market. Troy concludes his paper with a programmatic call for an increase in the supply of dwellings and a set of recommendations for achieving this. Ray Bunker's paper reviews the history of urban consolidation as part of metropolitan planning over the last ten years. Like Troy, he questions many of the assumptions invested in urban consolidation policies,· and argues that while a degree of consolidation is occurring, it is but one means invoked to serve a number of ends, and the pursuit of those ends themselves involves other instruments, some of which may be more effective. Further, consolidation needs to be gradual, locally differentiated and responsive, and these local dimensions need to be expressed more poweifully.Urban consolidation : a comment by Richard Cardew -- Metropolitan planning and urban consolidation: the Getting of Wisdom - or for the Term of His Natural Life? by Patrick N. Troy -- A decade of urban consolidation by Raymond Bunker

Bedrock geology of Linn County

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Dark sectors 2016 Workshop: community report

This report, based on the Dark Sectors workshop at SLAC in April 2016, summarizes the scientific importance of searches for dark sector dark matter and forces at masses beneath the weak-scale, the status of this broad international field, the important milestones motivating future exploration, and promising experimental opportunities to reach these milestones over the next 5-10 years