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

Recommendations on STRATEGIC urban-planning PRACTICES to implement urban-sustainability POLICIES
STRATEGY Enable integrated and connected cities and territories

POLICY --To ensure that economic growth, social development and environmental sustainability go hand
in hand to promote better connectivity at all territorial levels--
PRACTICES Sustainable transport
Smart growth and transit-oriented development
Integrating land use and transportation
Recommendations on physical urban-planning interventions
 Provide a duality of point-to-point public travel options though alternative routes and transportation means to
guarantee public mobility across the whole urban network in route failure situations.
 Prioritise polycentric urban structures with diversified and complementary urban functions. This will allow for
decentralized and distributed multi-modal network schemas with well-connected and efficient interchanges in
nodes.
 Connect low-income with higher-income areas to help catalyse development and social inclusion across the city.
 Connect residence with related economic/business areas to allow all population segments to use public
transport to commute for work.
 As a strategy to remove private cars from the city centre and narrow streets, prioritise pedestrianization and
public transport. This same strategy should also be used to preserve certain patrimonial cityscapes and historical
sites.
 Promote urban renewal instead of allowing urban sprawl. Urban renewal and new urbanization interventions
should include job schemes which focus on providing citizens with employment options within the urban
territories.
 Invest judiciously in public transport systems to promote affordability of mobility services.
Recommendations on non-physical urban-planning actions

 Reduction of commuting time has a positive impact on productivity and quality of life. Before drafting a mobility
plan, conduct an analysis of the need for travelling in order to focus the planning efforts on reducing the need
for commuting.
 If new areas are to be developed and in the process new streets will be built, it is important to include land–
value capture mechanisms as a means to subsidize public transport and make it affordable to all income groups.
 Designing local mobility plans in collaboration with surrounding municipalities will assist with better integration
of the mobility needs of external commuters.

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