Planning Sustainable Cities reviews recent urban planning practices and approaches, discusses constraints and conflicts therein, and identifies innovative approaches that are more responsive to current challenges of urbanization. It notes that traditional approaches to urban planning (particularly in developing countries) have largely failed to promote equitable, efficient and sustainable human settlements and to address twenty-first century challenges, including rapid urbanization, shrinking cities and ageing, climate change and related disasters, urban sprawl and unplanned peri-urbanization, as well as urbanization of poverty and informality. It concludes that new approaches to planning can only be meaningful, and have a greater chance of succeeding, if they effectively address all of these challenges, are participatory and inclusive, as well as linked to contextual socio-political processes.

Global Report on Human Settlements 2009: Planning Sustainable Cities - Abridged Edition

Other titles in the Global Report on Human Settlement series:

Cities and Climate Change 2011
Planning Sustainable cities 2009
Enhancing Urban Safety and Security - Vol 1, Vol 2 and Vol 3
Financing Urban Shelter 2005
The Challenge of Slums 2003
Cities in A Globalizing World 2001
An Urbanizing World 1996