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Integrated Urban Planning

Local governments face ever more complex challenges of urban development. Plans for the short-term, medium-term, and long-term help in managing these complex challenges. An integrated, multi-sectoral approach is essential. Learn how urban planning can assist in building a sustainable city and the role that data can play in the planning process. 

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Influence of COVID-19 on China’s Urban Planning and Design Regulations

  • Country/ City
    China
  • Published On
    January 19, 2021
  • Author(s)
    The World Bank
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    • Influence of COVID-19 on China’s Urban Planning and Design Regulations

    Cities globally have been profoundly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. This has sparked a discussion about how cities are designed to make them better equipped to resist the spread of disease and reshape urban planning to adapt to risks in health crises. History shows that infectious diseases have been hugely influential in shaping cities. Pandemics, such as the Black Death, Cholera, and Spanish flu, helped to catalyze innovations like urban sanitation systems and zoning regulations.

Flooding in East Africa: The impacts on and implications for cities in East Africa, with a case study of Dar es Salaam

  • Country/ City
    Tanzania
  • Published On
    December 10, 2020
  • Author(s)
    Valerie Brown
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    • Flooding in East Africa: The impacts on and implications for cities in East Africa, with a case study of Dar es Salaam

    This report is aimed primarily at policymakers in emerging megacities, where the population is set to reach more than 3 million by 2050, but also at practitioners and other interested parties. The objective is to inform on and raise awareness of climate change issues, specifically, flooding in emerging megacities in East Africa. The report covers the context of flooding in East African cities, why this is an issue, and what types of floods are experienced.

Greater Than Parts: A Metropolitan Opportunity

  • Country/ City
    Global
  • Topic
    case studies, innovation, GTP
  • Published On
    November 13, 2020
  • Abstract

    • Greater Than Parts: A Metropolitan Opportunity

    Cities are the source of over 70 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. Cities are also the engines of the global economy, concentrating more than half the world’s population. By the year 2050, two-thirds of the world will be urban, with cities accommodating an additional 2.5 billion people over today’s total. Nearly all of this urban growth will occur in developing countries.

Sustainable Urban Development Assessment (SUDA) - Summary Report

  • Country/ City
    Global
  • Published On
    October 20, 2020
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    • Sustainable Urban Development Assessment (SUDA) - Summary Report

    The Sustainable Urban Development Assessment (SUDA) is used to help establish a baseline for Sustainable Urban Development (SUD) planning in a territory or jurisdiction, such as a city or region. A SUDA was compiled for 23 selected GPSC cities / territories, of which 21 were cities, with one region and one subnational state.

Policy Solution from the Solution Gateway on Efficient Street Lighting Using LED

  • Published On
    August 20, 2020
  • Author(s)
    Jisun Hwang, ICLEI World Secretariat
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    • Policy Solution from the Solution Gateway on Efficient Street Lighting Using LED

    Define a policy outlining the requirement to use energy efficient technology in all governmental operations and in all systems providing lighting services to the community. This policy goes hand-in-hand with a public procurement policy, by ensuring sustainable procurement requirements are included relevant to lighting and lighting systems.
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