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Collection Methodology for Key Performance Indicators for Smart Sustainable Cities

Dimension Economy
Sub-Dimension Infrastructure
Category Urban Planning
KPI Name Urban Development and Spatial Planning
KPI No. EC: I: UP: 2A Type: Advanced Type: Sustainable

Definition / Existence of urban development and spatial planning strategies or documents at
Description the city level

Rationale / Well-managed urbanization techniques generate economic prosperity, socio-
Interpretation / cultural progress and environmental sustainability. Poorly managed urbanization
Benchmarking causes increased inequality, growth of slums and negative climate change impacts.
Successful urban development and planning requires evidence based design,
implementation and management.
For each primary and secondary city (as defined by United Nations Department of
Economic and Social Affairs), the following terms are to be considered:
Urban Planning: The process of urban planning has been conducted if “urban
planning documents” are available for each primary and secondary city in scope.
Smart: This includes the existence of evidence-based and innovative methodology
(including data innovations like spatial analytics, GIS, big data) to provide
information on the urban plan outputs.
Innovation: This means novel, original and useful.
Sustainable: Urban plans should have (all) these 5 principles/elements to be
considered “sustainable”:
1) Compact – avoiding urban sprawl [yes/no];
2) Connectivity – places and locations to demonstrate high connectivity [yes/no];
3) Integration - mixed urban land use [yes/no];
4) Socially inclusive [yes/no]; and
5) Resilient to climate change [yes/no].
If a city has only implemented 1, 2, 3, 4 out of 5 principles, it is only partially
planned.
Source(s) Cities Alliance. Retrieved from
<http://www.citiesalliance.org/sites/citiesalliance.org/files/CIVIS%20SECONDARY%
20CITIES_Final.pdf>

Methodology To collect the data for the measurement:
Step 1: Identify city (in scope);
Step 2: Deduce whether there is an urban plan for the city; and
Step 3: Examine if urban plans contain all 5 sustainability principles/elements (if the
plans are digitalized and on the web then consider using automated web queries
with semantics to examine these elements).
If an urban plan has a smart methodology (as defined above) and meets all 5
sustainable urban plan principles, then it qualifies as a smart sustainable city’s
urban plan.
If these principles are only partially met, mark as “partial” for further development.
Unit Yes or No. To be rated based on information provided

Data Sources / Urban planning websites and data repositories of local, municipal and/or national
Relevant governments.
Databases

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