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Urban Design And Conflicting City Images Of Brazil: Rio De Janeiro And Curitiba, Vicente Del Rio
Urban Design And Conflicting City Images Of Brazil: Rio De Janeiro And Curitiba, Vicente Del Rio
City and Regional Planning
Imageability of places, cities and countries is strongly influenced by tourist and political portraits in the media. As human cognition relies on inferential perception and contrasting categories, marketing strategies exploit partial truths and conflicting city images to direct public perceptions. This article addresses the relationship between international perception, image building and urban design in the case of Brazil and the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Curitiba. Their contrasting images as exploited by the international media expose only partial truths. In fact, these images represent complementary development contradictions that co-exist in any major city today.
Strategies For Effective Risk Communication Under Sara Title Iii: Perspectives From Research And Practice, Richard C. Rich, W. David Conn, William L. Owens
Strategies For Effective Risk Communication Under Sara Title Iii: Perspectives From Research And Practice, Richard C. Rich, W. David Conn, William L. Owens
City and Regional Planning
Title III of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 requires that planning and emergency response agencies be able to communicate with the public in nonemergency situations in order to help citizens understand the risks they face from hazardous materials and to secure citizen participation in designing responses to chemical emergencies. Both research and reports from the field indicate that, with notable exceptions, most Local Emergency Planning Committees created for this purpose are making little or no effort at proactive communication. As a result, citizens are not being educated effectively about the hazards they face and are not acting …
Integrating Communication Skills And Planning Techniques, Hemalata C. Dandekar, Gerald R. Clark
Integrating Communication Skills And Planning Techniques, Hemalata C. Dandekar, Gerald R. Clark
City and Regional Planning
Practitioners have long stressed the need to teach professional commumcations skills to planning students. This paper describes ten years of experience in teaching a course in which communications skills and techniques of gathering and analyzing information are taught concurrently while investigating a problem of importance in the community. The course involves an ongoing collaboration, a "marriage of convenience," between an academic and a planner, casting city/county planning staff as clients for students This has proven useful for pedagogy and has had some positive impact on the community.