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Developing National Urban Policies

Ways Forward to Green and Smart Cities

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Editors:
  1. Debolina Kundu

    1. India Habitat Centre, National Institute of Urban Affairs, New Delhi, India

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  2. Remy Sietchiping

    1. United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), Nairobi, Kenya

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  3. Michael Kinyanjui

    1. United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), Nairobi, Kenya

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  • Helps readers understand sustainable urbanization and related challenges at the global, regional, and national levels through discussions of various nations’ urban policies
  • Reflects and promotes the UN’s new urban agenda for HABITAT III, which focuses on national urban policies
  • Is highly topical, addressing the latest developments in connection with the UN’s Sustainable Development Agenda and the Paris Declaration of 2015

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Supporting National Urban Policy with Smart and Green Urban Principles

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Locating the Importance of NUP in the Context of Present Urban Challenges

      • Debolina Kundu, Remy Sietchiping, Michael Kinyanjui
      Pages 3-12

    3. World Urbanisation: Trends and Patterns

      • Debolina Kundu, Arvind Kumar Pandey
      Pages 13-49

    4. National Urban Policy: Tool for Development

      • Michael Kinyanjui
      Pages 51-85

  3. Smarter and Greener National Urban Policies: Case Study Experiences in Select Countries

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87
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    2. Urbanisation in India: Towards a National Urban Policy Framework and Smart Cities

      • Debolina Kundu
      Pages 89-119

    3. Developing a National Urban Policy: A Case Study of Pakistan

      • Nasir Javed, Rahema Hasan, Nadia N. Qureshi
      Pages 121-146

    4. Developing a National Urban Policy in Afghanistan: Experiences and Lessons Learned

      • Mathew French, Parul Agarwala, Humayoun Faiz, Ahmad Shoaib Azizi, Masood Hamza, Srinivas Popuri et al.
      Pages 147-167

    5. The Philippines’ National Urban Policy for Achieving Sustainable, Resilient, Greener and Smarter Cities

      • Mario R. Delos Reyes, Mark Anthony M. Gamboa, Ryan Randle B. Rivera
      Pages 169-203

    6. Overview of Urban Policies in China

      • Debolina Kundu, Tania Debnath, Baishali Lahiri
      Pages 205-230

    7. Towards National Urban Policy in I.R. of Iran

      • Sara Habibi, Maysam Basirat, Mohammad Hassan Razavi
      Pages 231-254

    8. Assessment of the Implementation of the National Urban Policy, 2012 and Formulation of Sub-national Urban Policy and Smart City Strategy by Niger State Government, Nigeria

      • Mustapha Zubairu
      Pages 255-279

    9. Urban Policy in South Africa

      • David Everatt, Zayd Ebrahim
      Pages 281-298

    10. Urbanisation and a Culture-Based Strategy: Crafting a New Type of Spatial Vision for Zanzibar

      • Muhammad Juma
      Pages 299-317

    11. Elaborating Policy Under a National Urban Policy-Habitat Country Programme Document (NUP-HCPD) Platform: The Case of African Lusophone Countries

      • Marcella Guarneri, Evandro Holz, Thomaz Ramalho
      Pages 319-333

    12. Urban Development in Germany: Experiences in Framing the Urban Future

      • André Mueller
      Pages 335-355

    13. France National Urban Policies: Towards Sustainable, Inclusive and Innovative Cities

      • Eric Huybrechts
      Pages 357-375

    14. Australian NUP—Lessons to Be Learnt

      • Sara Stace
      Pages 377-405

    15. The Korean National Drive for Green and Smart Urbanisation

      • Okju Jeong
      Pages 407-424
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About this book

This book discusses and analyzes past and ongoing national urban policy development efforts from around the globe, particularly those that can lead the way toward smart and green cities. In view of the adoption of the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, especially the goal to have cities that are inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable, urban policies that can help achieve this goal are urgently needed. The UN-Habitat (HABITAT III) puts national urban policies at the heart of implementing and rethinking the urban agenda, and identifies them as being integral to the equitable and sustainable development of nations. Against this background, this important book, which gathers contributions from academics, planners and urban specialists, reviews existing urban policies from developing and developed nations, discusses various countries’ smart and green urban policies, and outlines the way forward. As such, it is essential reading for all social scientists, planners, designers,architects, and policymakers working on urban development around the world.  

Reviews

“This volume is an interesting collection of articles, whetting the appetite for further analysis of urban policies in different countries, whose development ideologies have undergone change overtime. … this is a highly informative volume.” (Darshini Mahadevia, The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol. 65, 2022)

Editors and Affiliations

  • India Habitat Centre, National Institute of Urban Affairs, New Delhi, India

    Debolina Kundu

  • United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), Nairobi, Kenya

    Remy Sietchiping, Michael Kinyanjui

About the editors

Debolina Kundu, Ph.D., is a Professor at the National Institute of Urban Affairs, India, and has over 25 years of professional experience in the field of development studies. She has been a doctoral fellow with the Indian Council of Social Science Research and holds a Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has worked as a consultant with various national and international agencies on issues of urban development, migration, poverty, governance and exclusion. She is currently the Country Principal Investigator for Global Challenge Research Fund project titled Sustainable, Healthy and Learning Cities and Neighbourhood support by United Kingdom Research and Innovation. She is also the HUDCO Chair and Editor-in-Chief of the journals Environment and Urbanization, Asia (SAGE) and Urban India (NIUA). She has authored many publications in peer reviewed journals and books. 



Remy Sietchiping, Ph.D., is Chief of Policy, Legislation and Governance Section within the Urban Practices Branch of the Global Solutions Division of UN-Habitat at its Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. He is currently working on national urban policies within spatial frameworks, legislation and governance, metropolitan development, urban corridor development and cluster, systems of connected cities and urban-rural linkages. He has over 25 years of experience and he coordinates global, regional, national and sub-national projects and programmes around the World.




Michael Kinyanjui is an Urban Policy Specialist at the Policy, Legislation and Governance Section within the Urban Practices Branch of the Global Solutions Division of UN-Habitat at its Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. He offers technical advice to member states on formulation and review of national urban policies and regional and spatial planning frameworks. Previously worked as a Consultant with UN-Habitat’s Policy Analysis Branch in research and drafting of Global Reports on Human Settlements. Current interest includes evaluation of national urban policies in implementation and monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goals particularly SDG-11, and the New Urban Agenda and development of the Global State of National Urban Policies 2020 report. Michael has over 15 years international experience in urban development.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Developing National Urban Policies

  • Book Subtitle: Ways Forward to Green and Smart Cities

  • Editors: Debolina Kundu, Remy Sietchiping, Michael Kinyanjui

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3738-7

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-3737-0Published: 18 August 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-3740-0Published: 18 August 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-3738-7Published: 17 August 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 450

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 108 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Urban Studies/Sociology, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Urban Economics

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