Urban planning

  • Tactical Urbanism for inclusive transport

    Tactical Urbanism for inclusive transport

    Regional focus: East Africa/Kenya Time: July 2023 – January 2024 Abstract: In 2010, Kenya adopted a new constitution that established 47 autonomous counties leading to an accelerated development of urban areas and an increased pressure and demand for inclusive and sustainable interventions to cater for the rising population and motorization rates. Flone Initiative conducted a safety audit…

  • Borås and Vracar – Serbia

    Borås and Vracar – Serbia

    Accessibility – organisation policy, structure and practice Both municipalities want to improve their capacity to reach out to and get input from people with disabilities, since they feel they are stuck in the ”old way” of getting and giving out information. This causes a risk to fail to include the perspectives of people with disabilities…

  • City-to-City Peer Learning to Accelerate Localization of the Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda

    This policy brief presents challenges and experiences ofdifferent cities and the possible strategies to accelerate theachievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) andthe New Urban Agenda as stipulated in the United Nationsdecade of action, to be addressed globally, locally and by thepeople. They are based on findings oftwo comparative projects undertaken by Mistra Urban Futures,an international…

  • Opportunities for Sustainable Water Governance in Ranchi, Jharkhand, India

    Many citizens in Ranchi, Jharkhand, suffer from the consequences of contaminated drinking water. The city’s water governance system therefore urgently needs to find ways to bring safe drinking water to its people. Prevalent models in water governance however do not provide effective guidance for the necessary transition process. They lack heuristics that facilitate an in-depth…

  • Älmhult and JB Marks, South Africa

    Älmhult and JB Marks, South Africa

    Project: Strategic Planning of Green Open Spaces in Growing Cities Det föreslagna projektet bygger på en gemensam problemanalys där varken Älmhults kommun eller JB Marks kommun har en politiskt antagen grönstrukturplan. Det försvårar prioriteringar, allokering av ekonomiska medel samt hindrar en optimal användning av gröna ytor för att gynna miljön och samhället i stort. Därmed…

  • Governance for Urban Services in Asia

    Governance for Urban Services in Asia

    Governance for Urban Services – Access, Participation, Accountability and Transparency, a book supported by ICLD funding, has recently been published by Springer. Edited by Shabbir Cheema, PhD, the book examines the process through which marginalized groups including migrants and minorities participate in local decision-making and the extent to which they benefit from services and facilities…

  • Mariestad and Kamyanets-Podilskiy, Ukraine and Ukmerge, Lithuania

    Mariestad and Kamyanets-Podilskiy, Ukraine and Ukmerge, Lithuania

    Project: Sustainable municipalities The project aims to discuss and work with the main problem – how to improve unsustainable solutions for cities and communities (number 9 and 11 in UN global climate goals) and to implement strategies for Agenda 2030. The focus will be on sustainable development both from the ecological, social and economic point of…

  • Youth Access Project

    Youth Access Project

    This project is one of four interrelated and integrated projects that form part of one programme or suite of projects. In order to understand the project in this context please refer to the accompanying document titled “Concept Document to accompany applications to ICLD on behalf of City of Gothenburg and Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality for…

  • Helsingborg and Probolinggo, Indonesia

    Helsingborg and Probolinggo, Indonesia

    Project: Sustainable bike lanes This project aims to strengthen and enhance the cooperation between the cities, and serves to increase local democracy. The project will strengthen three of ICLD’s four cores of cooperation. To increase participation, strengthen equity and fair treatment of citizens and increase transparency, the cities have chosen a common focus – bicycles…

  • Accessible cities 2017-2020

    Accessible cities 2017-2020

    This project is one of four interrelated and integrated projects that form part of one programme or suite of projects. This project is the main project and it builds upon the work that has been previously done between NMBM and the City of Gothenburg. Based on the toolkit produced in the previous project we will…