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Focusing urban planning efforts on key elements that can leverage the urban advantage for many - such as prioritizing public space within a framework of urban density, mixed land use and social mix, equitable access to land and tenure security and the integration of the formal and informal spaces and systems.
Urban regeneration initiatives are complex, lengthy and run the risk of gentrifying private space or privatize public one. At UN-Habitat we work for urban regeneration that ensures affordability, access to services and involvement of local residents to promote local economic development, where public space is a key element of interventions, and ...
2.0 Urban Strategic Planning 7 3.0 Good Urban Governance and the Urban Strategic Planning Process 11 3.1 Norms of Good Urban Governance 12 3.2 Applying the Norms of Good Urban Governance in the Urban Strategic Planning 12 process Sustainability 12 Subsidiarity 13 Equity 13 Efficiency 14 Transparency and Accountability 14
Guidelines on Urban and Territorial Planning (IG-UTP), a set of universal planning principles for the improvement of planning and management at all levels, from neighbourhood to city level, and beyond, to regional, national and transboundary levels. Urban and territorial planning has been thought of as an exclusive competence of national and
The Policy provides an overarching coordinating framework to deal with the most pressing issues related to rapid urban development, including slum prevention and regularization, access to land, basic services and infrastructure, urban legislation, delegation of authority to sub-national and local governments, financial flows, urban planning ...
This approach advocates for an integrated urban management and urban planning practice that simultaneously adopts the implementation of (1) an urban/spatial plan that addresses density, land use, streets and public spaces, and the defi-nition of public and private domains through urban design; (2) a legal plan that contains the
Reinventing Urban Planning for Sustainable Cities The future of urban planning has been the object of lively debate in recent years. For a long time, urban planning was considered an inefficient tool, unable to address development effectively. However, renewed attention to urban planning has recently emerged. Shifting dramatically from
Today, the international consensus is still the same: the quality of urban governance is the most important factor for the eradication of poverty and for prosperous cities. Good urban governance is outcome-oriented and promotes the rights of all people by ensuring that all urban residents reap the benefits of urbanization.
4 URBAN-RURAL LAND LINKAGES AND OTHER GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS ..... 20-24 4.1 Urban-rural land linkages in global development agendas, guidelines and frameworks ..... 21 4.2 Urban-rural land linkages framework in the context of other global
Public space is a vital part of everyday urban life: the streets urban residents pass through on the way to school or work, the places where children play, the local parks in which urban residents enjoy sports and sit at lunchtime. Public space is an open-air living room for city dwellers. Ensuring good quality, multi-