Summary

In response to the significant challenges faced by middle-income cities in improving land use in cities to meet the needs of rapidly growing populations in a way that is efficient, sustainable and socially inclusive, urban planning is one of the key pillars of the FCO Prosperity Fund’s Global Future Cities Programme. Urban planning is a wide-ranging term that can refer both to setting strategic goals and plans for a city’s future, or more specifically to the planning and regulation of urban land. This paper seeks to frame and inform key areas of urban land use planning policy, based on economic research, cross country evidence, and initial learnings from the Strategic Development Phase of the Programme. In this way, it seeks to provide an evidence base for future decision making in urban land use planning.

Download