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Dimension Economy
Sub-Dimension Infrastructure

Category Urban Planning
KPI Name Urban Development and Spatial Planning
KPI No. EC: I: UP: 2A Type: Advanced Type: Sustainable

Definition / Existence of urban development and spatial planning strategies or documents at
Description the city level

Rationale / Well-managed urbanization techniques generate economic prosperity, socio-
Interpretation / cultural progress and environmental sustainability. Poorly managed urbanization
Benchmarking causes increased inequality, growth of slums and negative climate change impacts.
Successful urban development and planning requires evidence-based design,
implementation and management.

For each primary and secondary city (as defined by United Nations Department of
Economic and Social Affairs), the following terms are to be considered:
Urban Planning: The process of urban planning has been conducted if “urban
planning documents” are available for each primary and secondary city in scope.
Smart: This includes the existence of evidence-based and innovative methodology
(including data innovations like spatial analytics, GIS, Big Data) to provide
information on the urban plan outputs.
Innovation: This means novel, original and useful.
Sustainable: Urban plans should have (all) these 5 principles/elements in order to
be considered “sustainable”:
1) Compact – avoiding urban sprawl [yes/no]
2) Connectivity – places and locations to demonstrate high connectivity [yes/no]
3) Integration – mixed urban land use [yes/no]
4) Socially inclusive [yes/no]
5) Resilient to climate change [yes/no]
If a city has only implemented 1, 2, 3, 4 out of 5 principles, it is only partially
planned.
Source(s) NOTE – Cities Alliance. Retrieved from <https:// www .citiesalliance .org/ >

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