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United for Smart Sustainable Cities
Implementing Sustainable Development Goal 11 by connecting sustainability policies
and urban-planning practices through ICTs
SDG 11 is expected to set the basis for urban-planning techniques and policies for the future. It is noted that
for the practical implementation of sustainability policies related to SDG 11 (and the NUA), these policies will
have to be executed directly through urban-planning interventions. These interventions are expected to
transform the intangibility of policies into physical manifestations, which can be addressed at a later stage.
These executions will be helped by embedded ICT technology, to introduce smartness into these sustainable
urban-planning interventions, especially for the evaluation of the implementation procedure.
Based on the above, this guideline document underscores the measures for the successful achievement of
SDG 11 by:
fostering the incorporation of transformative public policies into urban-planning actions;
elaborating on urban-planning design values to support its technology-based execution in aspiring
smart cities.
2 Implementation of SDG 11: Fostering the incorporation of
transformative public policies into urban-planning actions
Before moving forward on the global smart and sustainable city aspirations within SDG 11 (and NUA), it is
essential that an effective framework is in place. Such a framework will help boost the implementation of
public policies through urban-planning actions, which will be executed as technology-based interventions
and measured through KPIs (key performance indicators). These KPIs will be the basis for the establishment
of future standards.
The conceptual operational model of the proposed framework for urban planning under the smart-city vision
(in line with SDG 11) is depicted in Figure 1.
(1) Policy (2) Planning (3) Technological
guidelines actions interventions
KPIs and standards
Figure 1 Operational model for urban planning under the smart-city vision (in keeping with SDG 11)
Based on this model, the Future Living Framework (as depicted in Figure 2) is designed to identify, execute,
and monitor sustainability and smartness of urban-planning interventions for implementing SDG 11. As given
in Figure 2, the underlying structure of the framework has policies (SDG 11 sustainability policies) on one side
and the relevant practices (living domain’s urban and spatial master planning) on the other. An ICT interface
will enable the implementation of policies through urban-planning practices (executive smartness).
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