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'Cities are not just brick and mortar; they represent the dreams,
aspirations, and hopes of societies.'UN Habitat (2008)Urban lakes
are part of many of the cities we live in. They are often
intricately bound with the city's social fabric, valued for direct
utility purposes such as drinking water provision, or for their
aesthetic, historical, cultural, and religious significance.
However, oftentimes in spite of their unique spatial,
socio-cultural, and economic value and 'relationship' with the
city, urban lakes end up as receptacles for waste, or are infilled
for development.This book traces the socio-cultural and
technological dimensions at play for the protection and remediation
of a tropical urban lake, and how these dimensions guide the design
of need-based solutions. It explores design requirements based on
the need for sensitivity to religious and cultural norms, social
values and aesthetic requirements. First-hand experiences of the
writers in planning and executing an urban lake remediation project
in a fast-growing city and a UNESCO heritage site, are drawn as
practical examples. The lessons learnt can find application in
other lakes of cultural significance in tropical regions.
First published as a special issue of Policy & Politics, this
updated volume explores policy failures and the valuable
opportunities for learning that they offer. Policy successes and
failures offer important lessons for public officials, but often
they do not learn from these experiences. The studies in this
volume investigate this broken link. The book defines policy
learning and failure and organises the main studies in these fields
along the key dimensions of processes, products and analytical
levels. Drawing together a range of experts in the field, the
volume sketches a research agenda linking policy scholars with
policy practice.
'Cities are not just brick and mortar; they represent the dreams,
aspirations, and hopes of societies.'UN Habitat (2008)Urban lakes
are part of many of the cities we live in. They are often
intricately bound with the city's social fabric, valued for direct
utility purposes such as drinking water provision, or for their
aesthetic, historical, cultural, and religious significance.
However, oftentimes in spite of their unique spatial,
socio-cultural, and economic value and 'relationship' with the
city, urban lakes end up as receptacles for waste, or are infilled
for development.This book traces the socio-cultural and
technological dimensions at play for the protection and remediation
of a tropical urban lake, and how these dimensions guide the design
of need-based solutions. It explores design requirements based on
the need for sensitivity to religious and cultural norms, social
values and aesthetic requirements. First-hand experiences of the
writers in planning and executing an urban lake remediation project
in a fast-growing city and a UNESCO heritage site, are drawn as
practical examples. The lessons learnt can find application in
other lakes of cultural significance in tropical regions.
This edited book captures key trends that are driving changes in
policy education and presents a repertoire of pedagogies to prepare
educators and policy programme designers to teach for better impact
in learning and policy practice. Supported with observations from
selected Asian universities the chapters cover the experiences of
authors in working with students at undergraduate and postgraduate
levels, as well as professional programmes such as executive
education, training, and capacity building for mid-career
professionals and practitioners. Part I of this book presents ideas
that are asserting the need for incorporation of new content as
well as teaching practices for policy education. Part II covers
selected cases of application of pedagogical approaches and
strategies in Asian universities, tested at different education
levels, modes of teaching, and disciplines.
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