Integrated Urban Planning

Planning sustainable cities through a multisectoral approach

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Each part of the Chongqing 2035 report is downloadable below.

Overview Report: Spatial and Economic Transformation for a Global City

Supporting Report 1: Spatial Transformation Strategy Increasing Efficiency and Livability by Promoting Compact and Human-Centered Development 

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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development includes 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with the 11th goal particularly relevant to cities. SDG 11 commits the world to making “cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.” Building on the SDGs, the New Urban Agenda (NUA) adopted at the 2016 Habitat III conference in Quito, Ecuador, sets out a 20-year road map for the sustainable urban development of cities and municipalities. The document focuses on improving residents’ social, cultural, and environmental well-being.
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The aim of The State of African Cities 2018: The geography of African investment report is to contribute to development policies that can turn African cities into more attractive, competitive and resilient foreign direct investment (FDI) destinations. Attracting global FDI is highly competitive and crosses various geographic scales, therefore regional cooperation by cities and nations is critical.

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Confronting the Urban Housing Crisis in the Global South: Adequate, Secure, and Affordable Housing" is a chapter of the World Resources Report: Towards a More Equal City.

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This paper summarizes our current understanding of water and security threats and their links to conflict, migration, and food insecurity. It is intended for professionals in the defense, diplomacy, and development fields. We review the key drivers behind growing water risk, describe and illustrate water and security pathways, and present approaches for reducing water related risks to global security.

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The guidebook takes a new approach to environmental governance by focusing on identifying the social capital of actors within the landscapes. It centers on two main approaches: 1) mapping actors’ resource flows and 2) mapping actors’ priorities and values. Co-written by WRI international offices, this methodology has been tested in Brazil, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, and Rwanda. The guidebook focuses primarily on restoration, but the same methodologies can be adapted to broader analysis of natural resource governance.

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This working paper on urban housing is the latest installment of WRI’s flagship World Resources Report (WRR), “Towards a More Equal City.” The report examines if more equitable access to core urban services improves the economy and the environment.

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The Urban Sustainability Framework (USF) is structured in two parts, along with annexes that explore the good practices of specific cities and organizations and the positive results of their initiatives.
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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.
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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.

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