This document outlines the work of Frank D'hondt, Secretary General of the Urban and Territorial Planning Advisor. It summarizes various urban planning projects around the world, including sustainable street designs in Greece, urban renewal in China, bus rapid transit systems in Afghanistan, and proposed rail connections between Gaza and the West Bank. It also discusses the Sustainable Development Goals and how territorial planning can help achieve them. The document advocates for more inclusive, connected, resilient and sustainable cities through strategic and participatory urban planning.
32. Sustainable
Development
Goals
A Territorial Approach to the SDGs
• While SDG11 on cities is central, most of the other goals are
inter- connected and hold implications for cities and regions
• 65% of 169 targets need local and regional governments’
engagement in order to be achieved
• There are strong territorial disparities within countries:
looking at national averages is not enough. The SDGs can
foster policy coherence and place-based solutions to complex
problems
https://www.oecd.org/
44. Territorial
Planning
Manifesto
Making our cities and city-regions:
more compact and mixed use
socially more inclusive and healthier
carbon-neutral mobile and connected
climate resilient and biodiverse
through integrated strategic and
participatory urban and territorial
planning and placemaking.
45.
46. Territorial
Planning
Capacity
”Urban professionals are the key actors to support both
decision-makers and civil society to build the essential.
frameworks and make large cities affordable, inclusive,
resilient, sustainable and safe.”
“Planning skills need to be made more widely available,
socially and spatially”
Leading Change: delivering the New Urban Agenda through Urban
and Territorial Planning, 2018
Jakarta Declaration, ISOCARP’s 55th World Planning Congress 2019
Dear audience. If you attend this lecture to learn everything about the SDGs you never dared to ask, I will probably disappoint you. I will talk about the SDGs but this lectuire about how I deal with the SDGs in my planning approach and practice, in all of my capacities.
We all have a layered identies and I’m certainly no exception. Born and graduated in Gent, Belgium. Working a decade long in Benelux while exploring Europe as VP of ECTP.
Creating a spinoff of Omgeving with Guy V, Paul W and Filiep DC (o2 Consult) to further expand the int horizon, with Fileip DC ending up in Somali and I in Kosovo, th start of global quest for dignified planning and development. Meanwhile falling in love with a Greek lady and ending up in Athens as new home and cradle of TCi. Being elected as new SG of ISOCARP – paradoxically including a return to the roots with its HQ in The Hague and a 2021 WPC in the Low Countries.
BeTheChange: the difference between theory and praxis is the praxis. Say what you will do and do what you have said is easier said than done. Life is what happens while making plans! Attitude change is often more challenging than plan-change.
StreetWise: think globally but act StreetWise in the city and StreamWise in/out the city. Build up collective territorial intelligence with the help of ICT. Call that the Smart City..
ProPoor: plan for and with the 99% by properly taxing the 1%. Feel the Bern! ProPoor is also ProNature!
JustPlanning: adjust national and local planning systems to the people and their ecosystems and not longer the other way around
8-88City: design a more healthy city for and with children, elderly and differently abled people, through participatory placemaking and tactical urbanism
DecadeOfAction: the time to eradicate poverty while restoring the biosphere and biodiversity is NOW. SDGs need to be reviewed within a different ‘growth’ model and complemented by a Global Territorial Agenda: HalfEarthSociety
Glyfada is where I live and work when not on a mission. Glyfada is situated in the Athens Metropolis along the Athens Riviera. The coastal part is a quite affluent while the upper part is inhabited by /