Al-Ahsa City Profile 2019 The City Profile Report brings together diagnostic urban analysis and aligns that analysis with the UN-Habitat sustainable development framework to achieve the Saudi Vision 2030, NUA and SDGs. This tool helps in understanding the current while guiding the future planning of the city, whilst defining a clear strategy for sustainable development. This tool considers spatial planning in relation to legal aspects and Municipal and Local economy mechanisms.
CPI PROFILE Jazan 2019 Under the FSCP, UN-HABITAT, MOMRA, Municipality and its Local Urban Observatory has been working on developing urban statistic and spatial information (Geographic Information System) to provide relevant urban information that strongly supports decision-making process on urban development and urban planning in the city. This CPI Profile Report is a brief overview of the basic information and data about the City
Mixed reality for public participation in urban and public space design - Towards a new way of crowdsourcing more inclusive smart cities 2019 This report was produced by UN-Habitat in partnership with Ericsson. Mixed reality, holds tremendous potential for real-time digital visualisations, both at the street and neighbourhood level and the overall urban skyline and city grid. This new visually realistic blending of reality with virtual imagination can create a more intuitive space for planners, architects, residents and other stakeholders to viscerally experience and re-imagine future environments.
UN System-Wide Strategy on Sustainable Urban Development 2019
Evaluation of the Strategic Development Phase for the Global Future Cities Programme (4/2019) 2019
Urban Chances, City Growth and The Sustainability Challenge: A Research Dissemination Report 2019 Urban Chances, City Growth and The Sustainability Challenge: Chance2Sustain is a research programme that examined how governments and citizens in cities with differing patterns of urban economic growth make use of participatory (or integrated) spatial knowledge management to direct urban governance towards more sustainable development. Participatory spatial knowledge management is the main concept used to study this issue, as it reflects a strategic resource, which all stakeholders can contribute to urban governance processes towards sustainable development.
It includes both expert knowledge and several forms of non-expert knowledge, such as knowledge from (working) experience (tacit), embedded sectoral knowledge, and social (or community-based) knowledge at the neighbourhood and city-wide level. Participatory processes of urban planning and management are strategic in eliciting these forms of spatially disaggregated (of specific) knowledge, which are usually not acknowledged in topdown, expert-driven models of urban governance and planning. Utilizing participatory spatial knowledge can make urban governance and planning more effective and gain wider acceptance, by incorporating both expert and local community knowledge. Although participatory spatial knowledge management is increasingly used in urban planning processes, its success depends on external political and economic conditions.
A legal framework providing for fiscal decentralisation and funding, for instance, is a strategic support. The influence of various external conditions has not yet been analysed much locally, and certainly not comparatively across different socio-political contexts, although it is a strategic question, given the inherent trade-offs and potential political conflicts in combining environmental, social and economic goals (within sustainable development). Therefore, the programme focused on ten cities with contrasting economic and political conditions, with the main scientific objective of developing a model on participatory spatial knowledge management to direct urban governance to sustainable development.
The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) was a dissemination partner for the research programme. This report summarizes the findings of the research and contains two policy briefs targeted at policy makers and practitioners.
Jazan City Profile 2019 The City Profile Report brings together diagnostic urban analysis and aligns that analysis with the UN-Habitat sustainable development framework to achieve the Saudi Vision 2030, NUA and SDGs. This tool helps in understanding the current while guiding the future planning of the city, whilst defining a clear strategy for sustainable development. This tool considers spatial planning in relation to legal aspects and Municipal and Local economy mechanisms.
Evaluation of UN-Habitat’s City Planning and Design Strategy 2012 - 2016 (6/2018) 2019 The evaluation of UN-Habitat’s City Planning and Design Strategy (2012-2016) provides a forward-looking assessment of UN-Habitat’s City Planning, Extension and Design Unit (CPEDU), including the Global Public Space Programme (GPSP) and the Urban Planning and Design Lap (LAB). The evaluation findings and recommendations are useful in the context of the new UN-Habitat, including reform process. Key aspects include the stronger linking of UN-Habitat work with the SDG, the new Strategic Plan 2020-2025 formulation and the ongoing consultations for the restructuring of the organization.
The evaluation provides feedback, strategic inputs and learning opportunities for the project team and their partners. It also seeks to contribute to the dissemination of lessons and achievements to all project stakeholders: target beneficiaries, government bodies, donors, partners, project teams, UN-Habitat management and colleagues, as well as any other interested parties. This evaluation yielded ten core recommendations.
Urban Landscapes Integration Al-Ahsa: An Urban Cultural Oasis 2019 UN-Habitat’s three-pronged approach considers spatial planning in relation to legal and institutional frameworks, in addition to financial mechanisms. The demonstration project for Al Ahsa has been elaborated to include schematic designs and feasibility studies, that can later be transformed into implementation plans. This Demo project is to inform Policy making of needed urban reforms.
Waste Wise Cities Newsletter 2 2019 This Issue of the newsletter looks at World Habitat Day 2019, Trainings and courses, Results from our member questionnaire, Our Advisory Group, Call to Action, South-South-Galaxy, Innovative Ideas and Outlook.