ABSTRACT
Current urban planning systems are not equipped to deal with the major urban challenges of the twenty-first century, including effects of climate change, resource depletion and economic instability, plus continued rapid urbanization with its negative consequences such as poverty, slums and urban informality. These planning systems have also, to a large extent, failed to meaningfully involve and accommodate the ways of life of communities and other stakeholders in the planning of urban areas, thus contributing to the problems of spatial marginalization and exclusion. It is clear that urban planning needs to be reconsidered and revitalized for a sustainable urban future.
Planning Sustainable Cities reviews the major challenges currently facing cities and towns all over the world, the emergence and spread of modern urban planning and the effectiveness of current approaches. More importantly, it identifies innovative urban planning approaches and practices that are more responsive to current and future challenges of urbanization. The Global Report on Human Settlements is the most authoritative and up-to-date global assessment of human settlements conditions and trends. It is an essential reference for researchers, academics, public authorities and civil society organizations all over the world. Preceding issues of the report have addressed such topics as Cities in a Globalizing World, The Challenge of Slums, Financing Urban Shelter and Enhancing Urban Safety and Security.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I Challenges and Context
chapter 1|20 pages
Urban Challenges and the Need to Revisit Urban Planning
chapter 2|22 pages
Understanding the Diversity of Urban Contexts
part |2 pages
Part II Global Trends: The Urban Planning Process (Procedural)
chapter 3|25 pages
The Emergence and Spread of Contemporary Urban Planning
chapter 4|21 pages
The Institutional and Regulatory Framework for Planning
chapter 5|18 pages
Planning, Participation and Politics
part |2 pages
Part III Global Trends: The Content of Urban Plans (Substantive)
chapter 6|19 pages
Bridging the Green and Brown Agendas
chapter 7|20 pages
Planning and Informality
chapter 8|17 pages
Planning, Spatial Structure of Cities and Provision of Infrastructure
part |2 pages
Part IV Global Trends: Monitoring, Evaluation and Education
chapter 9|14 pages
The Monitoring and Evaluation of Urban Plans
chapter 10|14 pages
Planning Education
part |2 pages
Part V Future Policy Directions