About the 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.
Table of Contents:
Part One: Supporting National Urban Policy with Smart and Green Urban Principles.- Chapter 1 Locating the importance of NUP in the context of present urban challenges Debolina Kundu, Remy Sietchiping and Michael Kinyanjui.- Chapter 2 World Urbanisation – Trends and Patterns Debolina Kundu, Arvind Pandey.- Chapter 3 National Urban Policy: Tool for Development Michael Kinyanjui. Part Two: Smarter and Greener National Urban Policies: Case Study Experiences in Select Countries.- Chapter 4 Urban Policies in India in the Context of Inclusive Development Debolina Kundu.- Chapter 5 Developing a National Urban Policy: From messy & hidden urbanization to smart and green cities: A case study of Pakistan Nasir Javed; Ms. Rahema Hasan; Ms. Nadia N. Qureshi.- Chapter 6 Developing an Urban National Priority Program in Afghanistan: Experiences and Lessons Learned Mathew French; Parul Agarwala; Humayoun Faiz; Ahmad Shoaib Azizi; Masood Hamza; Srinivas Popuri; Jan Turkstra.- Chapter 7 The Philippines' National Urban Policy for Achieving Sustainable, Resilient, Greener and Smarter Cities Mario R. Delos Reyes., Atty. Mark Anthony M. Gamboa and Mr. Ryan Randle B. Rivera.- Chapter 8 Overview of Urban Policies in China Debolina Kundu, Tania Debnath, Baishali Lahiri.- Chapter 9 Toward National Urban Policy in Islamic Republic of Iran Sara Habibi, Maysam Basirat and Mohammad Hassan Razavi.- Chapter 10 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.- Chapter 11 Urban policy in South Africa David Everatt and Zayd Ebrahim.- Chapter 12 Urbanisation and a Culture-Based Strategy: Crafting a new type of spatial vision for Zanzibar Muhammad Juma.- Chapter 13 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.- Chapter 14 National Urban Development Policy of Germany – Experiences in Framing the Urban Future André Mueller.- Chapter 15 France National Urban Policies: towards sustainable, inclusive and innovative cities Eric HUYBRECHTS.- Chapter 16 Australian National Urban Policy: Lessons to Be Learnt Sara Stace.- Case Studies on Smart and Green Cities.- Chapter 17 The Korean National Drive for Green and Smart Urbanization Okju Jeong.- Chapter 18 Smart Nation Singapore: Developing Policies for a Citizen-Oriented Smart City Initiative Fiona Chang& Diganta Das.- Chapter 19 Towards Sustainable and Greener Cities: Lessons Learnt through NUPs Debolina Kundu, Remy Sietchiping and Michael Kinyanjui.- Index.
About the Author :
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.
Review :
“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)
