Metropolitan Dammam : City of Mega-Projects

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:	AbouKorin, Antar, Alsayel, Abdulrahman, Abdelfattah, Hazem
Format:	Report
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
Subjects:	METROPOLITAN AREA URBANIZATION URBAN PLANNING INTEGRATED PLANNING METROPOLITAN FINANCE POPULATION DENSITY DECARBONIZATION URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCE URBAN HOUSING ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/271891605298333108/Metropolitan-Dammam-City-of-Mega-Projects http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34824

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spelling	okr-10986-348242021-06-14T09:55:37Z Metropolitan Dammam : City of Mega-Projects AbouKorin, Antar Alsayel, Abdulrahman Abdelfattah, Hazem METROPOLITAN AREA URBANIZATION URBAN PLANNING INTEGRATED PLANNING METROPOLITAN FINANCE POPULATION DENSITY DECARBONIZATION URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCE URBAN HOUSING ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY 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. 2020-11-30T17:17:37Z 2020-11-30T17:17:37Z 2020-11-13 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/271891605298333108/Metropolitan-Dammam-City-of-Mega-Projects http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34824 English Greater Than Parts Case Study;No. 4 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 Middle East and North Africa Saudi Arabia
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topic	METROPOLITAN AREA URBANIZATION URBAN PLANNING INTEGRATED PLANNING METROPOLITAN FINANCE POPULATION DENSITY DECARBONIZATION URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCE URBAN HOUSING ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
spellingShingle	METROPOLITAN AREA URBANIZATION URBAN PLANNING INTEGRATED PLANNING METROPOLITAN FINANCE POPULATION DENSITY DECARBONIZATION URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCE URBAN HOUSING ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY AbouKorin, Antar Alsayel, Abdulrahman Abdelfattah, Hazem Metropolitan Dammam : City of Mega-Projects
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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	AbouKorin, Antar Alsayel, Abdulrahman Abdelfattah, Hazem
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title	Metropolitan Dammam : City of Mega-Projects
title_short	Metropolitan Dammam : City of Mega-Projects
title_full	Metropolitan Dammam : City of Mega-Projects
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publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
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