The study seeks to provide evidence-based inputs for the review of the National Spatial Strategy (NSS) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). The methodology is based on three criteria that assesses the content (relevance), process (integration) and results (effectiveness) of the NSS. The review is informed by lessons learnt from international experiences.

This publication is the result of the project ‘Support to Regional Benadir Administration’s Central Department of Urban Planning’ implemented in technical cooperation between the UN-Habitat Somalia Programme and the Mogadishu Department of Urban Planning (DUP). The data contained in the urban analysis was collected during GPS surveys by UN-Habitat Somalia during 2010-2012 and by the Mogadishu Department of Urban Planning (DUP) during 2013.

Final Report on the Global Experts Group Meeting ¨The Role of Metropolitan Development in Supporting the New Urban Agenda” held in Guadalajara, México, 3-4 December 2015

This work made with the Metropolitan Area of the Valle de Aburra in 2014, highlights its progress in the formulation of guidelines, determinants, and guidelines that have contributed to the construction of an orderly and sustainable Metropolitan Territorial Ordinance Model, but above all aware of the social, economic and environmental reality facing its territory

The Report on the Street Connectivity of the Saudi Cities is based on 17 cities that are part of the Future Saudi Arabia Cities Programme, aiming to contribute to the achievement of sustainable urbanization in the Kingdom.

Tendencias de largo plazo sobre conurbación y desarrollo urbano muestran que en vez de dispersarse aleatoriamente sobre el territorio, la población y la actividad económica en el mundo están cambiando y concentrándose en grandes centros. Estos centros se encuentran muchas veces constituidos, además de las ciudades, por los municipios cercanos a las mismas, conformando de esta manera lo que conocemos actualmente como las áreas metropolitanas.

This Guiding Framework is designed to outline key elements and instruments of the policy process through all the five NUP phases: feasibility, diagnosis, formulation, implementation and monitoring, and evaluation. Each phase is the subject of one part of the Framework. For each phase, the Framework will recommend perspectives and approaches that can be productive in the development of NUP.

Este documento se estructura de la siguiente manera: en primer lugar, se presentan los objetivos del estudio, seguidos de una exposición de la metodología empleada para identificar avances, lecciones aprendidas y recomendaciones para la Alcaldía Mayor, así como el alcance de esta investigación. Posteriormente se presenta el contexto de la implementación de la Estrategia, la justificación de su formulación y finalmente los principales resultados del balance, el conjunto de lecciones aprendidas,...