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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 Advocate physical compactness

POLICY --To promote sustained and inclusive economic growth that provides an enabling framework for
new economic opportunities, regulation of land and housing markets, and the timely provision
of adequate infrastructure and basic services--
PRACTICES Strategic structure planning
Inter-city and international coordination/cooperation
Recommendations on physical urban-planning interventions

 Identify cross-municipality challenges and develop shared masterplans involving these municipalities.
Masterplans should tackle these challenges in a holistic manner, considering all subsystems involved and the
effects on the overall territorial system.
 Encourage planning through projects that are more strategic in addition to those that have a domino effect and
create ‘cascade projects’ for the future.
 For inter-municipal projects, prioritise those that bring connectivity and strengthen ties between cities as these
will provide more robust foundations for future projects.
Recommendations on non-physical urban-planning actions
 Ensure that a base plan exists for any city. The base plan serves as a guideline for urban planning, incorporating
flexible strategies to strengthen the management capacities of local governments, and provide an entry point
for further integrated physical and strategic planning.
 Inform the current profile of the city by collecting as much data as possible and mapping all relevant elements
before taking any action.
 The methodology in any planning process should include need-discovery workshops and other engaging
activities to facilitate implementation and improve the uptake of the proposed master plan and the base plan.
Moreover, decisions on future projects should be made collectively with all relevant stakeholders.
 For successful cross-municipal planning, it is recommended to set up an inter-municipal agency with an impartial
vison to help resolve any disputes and conflicts of interest emerging from planning.

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