Planning, connecting, and financing cities--now : priorities for city leaders.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Lall, Somik V.

World Bank.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning.

Intergovernmental cooperation.

Municipal finance.

Physical Description:

xv, 111 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm

Other Title:

Planning, connecting & financing cities--now

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : World Bank, [2013]

Summary:

This report provides Mayors and other policymakers with a policy framework and diagnostic tools to anticipate and implement strategies that can avoid their cities from locking into irreversible physical and social structures. At the core of the policy framework are the three main dimensions of urban development. Planning where the focus is on making land transactions easier, and making land use regulations more responsive to emerging needs especially to coordinate land use planning with infrastructure, natural resource management, and risks from hazards; Connecting where the focus is on making a city s markets (for labor, goods, and services) more accessible to neighborhoods in the city and to other cities. Here the focus is also on investing in public transport, and pricing private transport fully; and Financing where the focus is on how a city can leverage its own assets to finance new assets for example, through land value capture, establishing creditworthiness for local governments and utilities to access domestic debt and bond markets and how to set clear and consistent rules to attract private investors to create jobs in cities. This report also distills lessons from prototypes urbanization diagnostics which have been piloted to reflect challenges for countries at nascent (Uganda, Vietnam), intermediate (China, India, Indonesia), and mature (Brazil, Colombia, South Korea, Turkey) urbanization. These diagnostics under the World Bank's Urbanization Review program have engaged strategic counterparts, such as those in national ministries of finance and planning, in thinking about policy choices that influence urbanization and city development.

Contents:

1 Planning cities 15

Spotlight A Slums are not inevitable: Rules for flexible land use and coordinated connections can improve living conditions 35

Spotlight B The value of market rules for basic services: For expanded coverage and increased efficiency, it's not all about the money 37

2 Connecting cities 41

Spotlight C New cities should be well located, flexibly regulated, and efficiently connected: Lessons from China, the Arab Republic of Egypt, and the Republic of Korea on placement, policy, and provision of infrastructure 63

3 Financing cities 67

Spotlight D Innovations in municipal finance: FINDETER and TNUDF 79

4 Framework in action: Lessons from Urbanization Reviews 83

Brazil 83

China 88

Colombia 92

India 96

Indonesia 101

The Republic of Korea 105

Vietnam 108.

Notes:

"This report was written by a team led by Somik V. Lall"--P. xi.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780821398395

0821398393

OCLC:

822895880