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United for Smart Sustainable Cities
Implementing Sustainable Development Goal 11 by connecting sustainability policies
and urban-planning practices through ICTs

With respect to sustainable urban development, the report further addresses and includes advanced policy
on “Linking Spatial Planning to Urban Infrastructure” with 7 additional aims:
 smart growth and transit-oriented development;

 integrating land use and transportation;
 strategic spatial planning and infrastructure planning;
 integrated urban management and development plans;
 strategic structure planning;
 linking spatial planning to infrastructure planning;

 linking mega-projects and major infrastructural developments to spatial planning.
Following on from understanding the role of urban planning for the sustainable urban development aims, the
next pertinent question to be addressed is: What are the urban-planning principles supporting the
implementation of sustainable urban development aims (as given above)?
This aspect is addressed in the following UN-Habitat report published in 2015.
2) UN-HABITAT International Guidelines on Urban and Territorial Planning (2015), which puts forward
four basic planning principles that should be inherent to any master planning exercise:
 advocate physical compactness;
 promote social inclusiveness;
 enable integrated and connected cities and territories;
 facilitate resilience to climate change.

Combining the key findings from these two reports, the first exercise involves classifying the 8+7 aims
included in the sustainable urban development role based on the four basic planning principles (Figure 3).

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