World Urban Campaign : A Planned City

Plan the cities of tomorrow for sustainability and quality of life
A planned city is fundamental to achieving a resilient, green, inclusive, productive, safe and healthy urban development. This requires planning processes and political frameworks that harness the city’s assets and potential. Sustainable planning entails participatory decision making processes and particular attention to development that balances social, environmental and economic needs.

The absence of a planned spatial system or structure in the form of layout to guide the basic organization of public space, basic services and buildings, perpetuates negative externalities in cities. A well-planned city should provide for low carbon growth, e.g., by being compact. Likewise it should be resilient to natural disasters, which increasingly will be influenced by climate change.

WHAT WORLD URBAN CAMPAIGN PARTNERS DO TOWARDS A PLANNED CITY

Good Practices

Learn here about good practices and actions towards a planned city.

Enabling Legislation

Learn here about legislation towards a planned city.

Tools and Methods

Learn here about tools and methods that enable urban policy-makers and practitioners to better plan, build, manage and measure impacts towards a planned city.

Good Policies

Learn here about good policies that have shown successful results at the national, regional and city levels and enabled decision-makers to tackle urban challenges and deliver positive change to citizens towards a planned city.

62.5 million new urban residents are added to cities in the developing world alone every year. This amounts to the need to find space for 18 cities like Berlin every year.
Smaller and intermediate cities already host over 60% of the global urban population and are the ones that are growing fastest – they have also the lowest capacity to plan and overall cope with such growth
In 2000, some 229 million (mostly poor) persons lived in urban areas in low elevation coastal zones in low- and lower-middle income countries that were at risk of sea level rise.
In many countries, planning systems established during colonial rule are still in force and have been only marginally updated or reformed

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