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Recommendations on STRATEGIC urban planning PRACTICES to implement urban sustainability
POLICIES

STRATEGY Promote social inclusiveness & development
POLICY --To provide adequate standards of living and working conditions for all segments of current and
future societies along with ensuring equitable distribution of the costs, facilitating opportunities
& benefits of urban development and promoting social inclusion & cohesion—
PRACTICES Increasing sense of place
Developing cities without slums
Foster community, individual participation and inclusiveness
Recommendations on physical urban planning interventions
 Deliver ‘revitalising’ projects where it is most needed in order to reconnect citizens with their places. These
projects should address a local need (such as transportation, services, etc.) but in an indigenous manner. This
can be done by the citizens themselves;
 Deploy housing schemes as a mixture of social and private housing offers, in combination with well-balanced
and accessible green spaces and public facilities. Inclusion of employment opportunities should be considered
as well;
 Favour re-development to prioritize renewal projects instead of facilitating urbanisation in new areas.
Recommendations on non-physical urban planning actions
 It is important to develop socio-civic plans to promote dynamism and connectivity, to boost economic activities
where there are less opportunities.
 Supporting social inclusion through specific programmes is required, especially where higher crime rates exist.
 Executing plans and programmes with efficient and transparent management of resources is important. This will
have a positive collateral effect on tax collection and citizen engagement.
 It will be beneficial to put in place different and complimentary mechanisms of public participation (in an array
of digital and analogue means) for citizens to participate based on their abilities.
 It is pertinent that all city investments are subject to Participatory Budgets approval. Deploy the approval process
locally and through several meetings to maximise participation.

Recommendations on STRATEGIC urban planning PRACTICES to implement urban sustainability
POLICIES
STRATEGY Promote social inclusiveness & development
POLICY --To help globalization processes that respect cultural heritages and cultural diversity, & the
recognition of distinct needs of various groups--
PRACTICES Policies that support innovative solutions and create a stable environment for such innovations
to take place
Recommendations on physical urban planning interventions
 Prioritise interventions in areas needing reinvention due to lack of services, transportation, housing or job offers;
 Interventions should include a mixture of uses in a well-blended socio-economic fabric, to avoid ‘ghettofication’;
 Built spaces should carry the right proportion of accessible green spaces and multipurpose public facilities to
allow for the accommodation of services to different cultural groups.
Recommendations on non-physical urban planning actions

 It is important to develop interventions in a PPPP (People first Public-Private Partnerships) format to ensure
future uptake at the lowest level and help implementation.
 Develop a Jobs Programme which can be introduced in parallel to innovative policies aimed at promoting
liveability and minimising commuting.

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