Urban and Regional Planning Strategies to Achieve Sustainable Urban Development: (Subject review)

Authors

  • Ali Abdul Samea Hameed University of Baghdad, Baghdad Iraq

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31695/IJASRE.2021.33980

Keywords:

Sustainable Urbanization, Sustainable Urban Development Strategies, Urban Development

Abstract

Sustainable urban planning provides cities with the ability to combat climate change. Integrated urban hubs built to put together residents, events, houses, and green facilities, with convenient walking and cycling connections between them and an almost excellent bus service to the rest of the area. This ensures that everyone has equal access to benefits and facilities with the lowest financial and environmental prices with the most productive and healthy combination of transport types, and with the highest tolerance with damaging occurrences. For long-term sustainability, peace shared prosperity and prosperous, democratic society, inclusive growth is critical. Ideally, communities can create strategies to protect the natural habitat of land use as best as they can. Public developments with multiple bike paths and footpaths parallel to green fields and roads that integrate natural habitats are more effective planning initiatives, increasing the attractiveness and feasibility of mobility alternative steps. Stadt proposals for green parks, wide sidewalks and car-free zones at the city centers would also implement walkable street policies. In integrated development, reduction in urban sprawl has been a critical priority. In terms of geography, bringing the jobs, family and shopping as similar as possible was important. Urban planning, in conjunction with vehicle paths, would rely on omnipresent links both to the public transport and the pedestrian route; therefore, in addition to organized mass transportation, effective modes of travel do not necessarily require automobiles (walking, cycling) remain an option. The optimal city would be exceptionally densely situated, with a variety of environmentally sustainable transit options.

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Ali Abdul Samea Hameed. (2021). Urban and Regional Planning Strategies to Achieve Sustainable Urban Development: (Subject review). International Journal of Advances in Scientific Research and Engineering (IJASRE), ISSN:2454-8006, DOI: 10.31695/IJASRE, 7(3), 22–27. https://doi.org/10.31695/IJASRE.2021.33980

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