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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 Promote social inclusiveness and 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
and benefits of urban development, while promoting social inclusion and cohesion--
PRACTICES Increasing sense of place
Developing cities without slums
Foster community, individual participation and inclusiveness
Recommendations on physical urban-planning interventions
 Deliver ‘revitalizing’ 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.) 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 redevelopment to prioritize renewal projects instead of facilitating urbanization 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. Additionally, it is also
essential to deploy the approval process locally through several meetings to maximise participation.

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