Metropolitan Ahmedabad : Scaling Up with Contiguous Replication of Town Planning Schemes

Globally, cities are the source of over 70 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. Cities are also the engines of the global economy, concentrating more than half the world’s population, and they are where the middle class is rapidly...

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Main Authors: Bharti, Madhu, Mehrotra, Shagun
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Language:English
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spelling okr-10986-348212021-06-14T09:55:07Z Metropolitan Ahmedabad : Scaling Up with Contiguous Replication of Town Planning Schemes Bharti, Madhu Mehrotra, Shagun METROPOLITAN AREA INTEGRATED PLANNING URBANIZATION URBAN PLANNING ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFIT POPULATION DENSITY CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY PERI-URBAN TOWN PLANNING Globally, cities are the source of over 70 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. Cities are also the engines of the global economy, concentrating more than half the world’s population, and they are where the middle class is rapidly expanding. Indeed, by the year 2050, two-thirds of the world will be urban, with cities accommodating an additional 2.5 billion people over today’s total. Nearly all of this urban growth will occur in developing countries. This concentration of people and assets also means that the impacts of natural disasters, exacerbated by the changing climate, may be even more devastating, both in terms of human lives lost and economic livelihoods destroyed. These effects will disproportionately burden the poor. Earth is on a trajectory of warming more than 1.5 degrees Celsius unless important decarbonizing steps are taken.Often urban policymakers prescribe integration as the solution to steering urbanization towards decarbonization to achieve greater global and local environmental benefits. However, little is known about the struggles—and successes—that cities in developing countries have in planning, financing, and implementing integrated urban solutions. The main objective of this report is to understand how a variety of developing and emerging economies are successfully utilizing horizontal integration—across multiple infrastructure sectors and systems—at the metropolitan scale to deliver greater sustainability. This report explores how integrated planning processes extending well beyond city boundaries have been financed and implemented in a diverse group of metropolitan areas. From this analysis, the report derives models, poses guiding questions, and presents three key principles to provoke and inspire action by cities around the world. 2020-11-30T16:47:38Z 2020-11-30T16:47:38Z 2020-11-13 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/290671605294532766/Metropolitan-Ahmedabad-Scaling-Up-with-Contiguous-Replication-of-Town-Planning-Schemes http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34821 English Greater Than Parts Case Study;No. 1 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: City Development Strategy South Asia India
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topic METROPOLITAN AREA
INTEGRATED PLANNING
URBANIZATION
URBAN PLANNING
ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFIT
POPULATION DENSITY
CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION
CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY
PERI-URBAN
TOWN PLANNING
spellingShingle METROPOLITAN AREA
INTEGRATED PLANNING
URBANIZATION
URBAN PLANNING
ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFIT
POPULATION DENSITY
CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION
CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY
PERI-URBAN
TOWN PLANNING
Bharti, Madhu
Mehrotra, Shagun
Metropolitan Ahmedabad : Scaling Up with Contiguous Replication of Town Planning Schemes
geographic_facet South Asia
India
relation Greater Than Parts Case Study;No. 1
description Globally, cities are the source of over 70 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. Cities are also the engines of the global economy, concentrating more than half the world’s population, and they are where the middle class is rapidly expanding. Indeed, by the year 2050, two-thirds of the world will be urban, with cities accommodating an additional 2.5 billion people over today’s total. Nearly all of this urban growth will occur in developing countries. This concentration of people and assets also means that the impacts of natural disasters, exacerbated by the changing climate, may be even more devastating, both in terms of human lives lost and economic livelihoods destroyed. These effects will disproportionately burden the poor. Earth is on a trajectory of warming more than 1.5 degrees Celsius unless important decarbonizing steps are taken.Often urban policymakers prescribe integration as the solution to steering urbanization towards decarbonization to achieve greater global and local environmental benefits. However, little is known about the struggles—and successes—that cities in developing countries have in planning, financing, and implementing integrated urban solutions. The main objective of this report is to understand how a variety of developing and emerging economies are successfully utilizing horizontal integration—across multiple infrastructure sectors and systems—at the metropolitan scale to deliver greater sustainability. This report explores how integrated planning processes extending well beyond city boundaries have been financed and implemented in a diverse group of metropolitan areas. From this analysis, the report derives models, poses guiding questions, and presents three key principles to provoke and inspire action by cities around the world.
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author Bharti, Madhu
Mehrotra, Shagun
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Mehrotra, Shagun
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title Metropolitan Ahmedabad : Scaling Up with Contiguous Replication of Town Planning Schemes
title_short Metropolitan Ahmedabad : Scaling Up with Contiguous Replication of Town Planning Schemes
title_full Metropolitan Ahmedabad : Scaling Up with Contiguous Replication of Town Planning Schemes
title_fullStr Metropolitan Ahmedabad : Scaling Up with Contiguous Replication of Town Planning Schemes
title_full_unstemmed Metropolitan Ahmedabad : Scaling Up with Contiguous Replication of Town Planning Schemes
title_sort metropolitan ahmedabad : scaling up with contiguous replication of town planning schemes
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2020
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/290671605294532766/Metropolitan-Ahmedabad-Scaling-Up-with-Contiguous-Replication-of-Town-Planning-Schemes
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