Over time, human mobility has been enhanced since the inception of air travel. With the shift in human settlement patterns, rapid urbanization has become a point of major concern for most human societies. Air travel has significantly improved travel between cities as a fast and efficient mode of travel. With the growth of cities, the relation between airports and cities has led to a shift in land use between city cores and airports; due to the emergence of development corridors connecting the two activity areas. The partnership between ICAO and UN-Habitat seeks to bring a wide array of international experience and best practices that will create synergies, towards promoting sustainable development of cities and airports; through the development of tools (guidelines) and capacity development activities.
Aviation and urbanisation experts in the
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project countries have contributed to a report on synergizing urbanisation and aviation
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experts engaged in a stakeholder sensitization on aviation and urbanisation
Stakeholders from aviation and metropolitan planning authorities agreed on a roadmap to fastrack the project aspirations, that will lead to the development of guidelines on city-airport development
