Metropolitan Atlas : Spatial Analytics for Developing Cities

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: Mehrotra, Shagun, Bonansea, Bruno
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Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/246201605296114652/Metropolitan-Atlas-Spatial-Analytics-for-Developing-Cities
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spelling okr-10986-357182021-06-10T05:11:23Z Metropolitan Atlas : Spatial Analytics for Developing Cities Mehrotra, Shagun Bonansea, Bruno URBANIZATION URBAN EXPANSION SUSTAINABLE CITY INFRASTRUCTURE BLACK CARBON MASS TRANSIT URBAN DEVELOPMENT URBAN PLANNING CITY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY 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. 2021-06-09T14:53:29Z 2021-06-09T14:53:29Z 2020-11-13 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/246201605296114652/Metropolitan-Atlas-Spatial-Analytics-for-Developing-Cities http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35718 English Greater Than Parts Volume 3; 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
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topic URBANIZATION
URBAN EXPANSION
SUSTAINABLE CITY INFRASTRUCTURE
BLACK CARBON
MASS TRANSIT
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
URBAN PLANNING
CITY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
spellingShingle URBANIZATION
URBAN EXPANSION
SUSTAINABLE CITY INFRASTRUCTURE
BLACK CARBON
MASS TRANSIT
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
URBAN PLANNING
CITY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
Mehrotra, Shagun
Bonansea, Bruno
Metropolitan Atlas : Spatial Analytics for Developing Cities
relation Greater Than Parts Volume 3;
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 Mehrotra, Shagun
Bonansea, Bruno
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Bonansea, Bruno
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title Metropolitan Atlas : Spatial Analytics for Developing Cities
title_short Metropolitan Atlas : Spatial Analytics for Developing Cities
title_full Metropolitan Atlas : Spatial Analytics for Developing Cities
title_fullStr Metropolitan Atlas : Spatial Analytics for Developing Cities
title_full_unstemmed Metropolitan Atlas : Spatial Analytics for Developing Cities
title_sort metropolitan atlas : spatial analytics for developing cities
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2021
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