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

Figure 3  Conceptual design of the Future Living Framework correlating urban-planning roles
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with principles

Taking the 8+7 aims as the policies addressing sustainable urban development (as envisioned in SDG 11) and
the four urban-planning principles as the practices that will guarantee the achievement of SDG 11, specific
actions to implement the practices to successfully deliver SDG 11 still need to be deciphered. To this end, the
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UN-Habitat 2015 Report was re-analysed, and the recommendations provided to urban planners for
designing each of the four urban-planning principles, were taken into account.

5 According to the UN-Habitat report on Human Settlements (2009), urban planning roles can be ‘essential’ or
‘additional’. This distinction has been made evident in the figure.
6 Please see page 41, Section B of UN HABITAT International Guidelines on Urban and Territorial Planning (2015).
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