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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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GPSC Compendium: Achieving Affordable Housing for All

  • Country/ City
    Global
  • Topic
    Housing
  • Published On
    March 17, 2017
  • Author(s)
    GPSC
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    • GPSC Compendium: Achieving Affordable Housing for All

    Urban population is exploding and by 2030, nearly 60 percent of the world's projected 8.3 billion people will live in cities. This translates into a need for 300 million new homes. Currently, 828 million slum dwellers are highly exposed to climate change and natural disasters, due partly to substandard housing but also to segregation and inequality. Worldwide, 93 percent of people have no access to formal housing finance products.

GPSC Compendium: Integrated Planning for Sustainable Urban Form

  • Country/ City
    Global
  • Published On
    March 17, 2017
  • Author(s)
    GPSC
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    • GPSC Compendium: Integrated Planning for Sustainable Urban Form

    Fast-growing cities face challenges of populations to shelter, huge infrastructure needs to finance, a changing climate to adapt to, and the imperative to thrive in an evolving global economy. Meeting these challenges will determine a city's success and quality of life. Decisions and policies may lock a city into a long-term physical form that proves suboptimal over time. Undesirable physical forms can set back a city's development for decades.

Innovative city-business collaboration: Emerging good practice to enhance sustainable urban development

  • Published On
    January 01, 2015
  • Author(s)
    Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI), The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
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    • Innovative city-business collaboration: Emerging good practice to enhance sustainable urban development

    This study looks at six initiatives around the world that aspire to facilitate city-business collaboration with holistic, multi-stakeholder approaches from: Urban Infrastructure Initiative by the WBCSD; Indore, India; Scania, Sweden; Houston, USA; Rakli, Finland and Bottrop, Germany. It provides insights into lessons learned and draws on the common aspects of the cases as well as some of their differences.

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