The challenge instead is to plan, develop and manage cities in the interest of those who live there.

The Urban Economy and Finance Branch within the Monitoring and Research Division conducts research on policies and strategies in urban planning, economic development, poverty eradication, and municipal and housing finance systems.

The National Urban Development Programme focuses on four operational areas the One Hundred Cities Programme, aiming at strengthening the capacity of cities to receive investments and promote development the programme for the consolidation of metropolitan areas the promotion of regional planning and the strengthening of the legal framework for urban development as well as the programme for the promotion of social and private sector participation in urban development.

Participants also observed that there was a close relationship between the strategic plan for sustainable development and the master plan for city development.

(a) Regional planning and urban development to achieve a coherent allocation of resources and investments on development

Sustainable urban development (access to basic services such as water and sanitation, waste management, transport and energy urban planification).

Urban Planning Revisited

This will be achieved by establishing guidelines and policies for planning and management, preparing land use plans, improving urban cadastres and participative systems of urban planning, while supporting the elaboration of 80 urban development plans.

Through the Ministry of Social Development the Federal Government has introduced the Habitat Programme in order to assist the poor sector of the population living in towns and metropolitan areas through the joint implementation of social programmes and urban development.

Cities in the developing world are characterized by inadequately planned and overcrowded settlements without access to even basic urban services.

The strategy of the Government on regional and urban development focuses on the preparation of urban development plans, human resources development, the establishment of an Urban Regional Development Joint Commission and Technical Committees, and the creation of the Financial System for Urban Development.

Through recent amendments to the Planning and Building Act, goals for sustainable urban development have been introduced into Swedish planning legislation.

As in the case of providing land for social housing and urban development, its activities are part of the general effort to improve urban and territorial planning.

The Programme has also worked closely with the New Partnership for Africa's Development to advance the urban agenda.

He is an expert in the area of city planning.

Speaking about the design every city has its own design.

(c) Rules for planning and implementation of urban renewal projects by the municipalities.

The above mentioned Habitat Programme includes as one of its components the project known as Urban Planning and Habitat Development Agencies , which provides support for the improvement of urban planning and administration and for the training of civil authorities responsible for encouraging local development initiatives and practices, with a view to improving the urban environment and achieving the construction of townships which are orderly, safe, sustainable, welcoming and competitive.

Governments are encouraged to include human settlements in their national development plans and to promote city and metropolitan planning in their national poverty reduction strategy documents and in their United Nations development assistance frameworks.

Planning Practice in an Urbanizing World

Planning for Long Term Urban Sustainability

The metropolitan city development strategy is an innovative planning process for cities, inclusive and responsive to demand.

Morocco In Tetuan, Morocco, as in many developing countries, metropolitan authorities lack the appropriate instruments to link administrative decisions with physical planning and the planning of infrastructure, services and socio economic development.

Planning takes time. And I'm proposing urban acupuncture.

(e) Mega cities and urban development.

Mega cities and urban development

And that directly connects to ideas of city making.

The Department of Cultural Linkage and Civic Participation (DGVCC) is carrying out a Programme for Municipal Cultural Development aimed at establishing financial funds and installing municipal Civic Councils for Culture, which will plan, implement and administer the programme resources.

And the city has planned for better or for worse 12 million square feet of development that the High Line is going to ring around.

Knowledge for Urban Development

The Urban Challenge in Africa Growth and Management of its Large Cities

Mongolia plans to formulate a national urban and housing policy which would include laws and regulations on urban management and planning and programmes for decentralization, infrastructure development, capacity building and creation of awareness in the area of urban management.

In the area of town planning, CRTS, together with the Rabat Urban Agency and Belgian Cooperation, is setting up a project using satellite data to monitor cities in developing countries.

Creation of integrated human development centres for women in the informal urban sector.

UNEP and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN Habitat) have been cooperating for more that a decade in the joint Sustainable Cities Programme, including through the development of capacity building tools for urban environmental management and the GEO for Cities series of reports.

(b) Completion of the development and environmental plans for the capital city and its metropolitan area, as well as the formulation of proposals for urban transport management

The Tenth Development Plan, which began in 2003, incorporated shelter and urbanization issues into national development policies.

Cities and Sustainable Development

In December 2003, the Programme for Developing Small Cities for 2004 2006 was adopted. It calls for the creation of the requisite conditions for the stable socio economic development of small cities, in combination with State support of cities with a depressed economy.

The Urban Millennium Partnership on localizing the Millennium Development Goals, promoted by UN Habitat, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and UCLG was launched at the World Urban Forum and received support from many partners.

Municipal funds to support sustainable urban development could be established.

And we are operating with a comprehensive urban planning deficit.

New concepts of urban planning should centre on poor people's access to urban land.

It also facilitates urban planning, revenue collection, legalizing property ownership, developing postal systems and even the naming of roads.

High resolution topographical maps could also be used in commercial applications ranging from road building and urban planning to community development and identification of flood plains.