City Development Strategies

• Liveable Cities: The Benefits of Urban Environmental Planning. A Cities Alliance Study on Good Practices and Useful Tools.

• Understanding Your Local Economy: A Resource Guide for Cities

• City Development Strategies. Villes en développement, no. 75, March 2007:

  English (8 pages, 319 KB PDF)            Français (8 pages, 387 KB PDF)

• How to integrate environment into city planning?

• International City Development Policy Conference, Cities Alliance and Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt, March 20 – 21, 2006.

• Guide to City Development Strategies: Improving Urban Performance - Cities Alliance

• CDS Monitoring and Evaluation Guidelines:

  • CDS Impact Study Final Report. ECON Analysis and Centre for Local Government, UTS. Commissioned by Per Anders Persson, Senior Programme Officer, Cities Alliance.

  • CDS ME Guidance Framework. ECON Analysis and Centre for Local Government, UTS. Commissioned by Per Anders Persson, Senior Programme Officer, Cities Alliance.

• City Development Strategies - Douglas Webster.

• City Development Strategies to Reduce Poverty - Asian Development Bank.

• Cities Alliance and City Development Strategies. Ahmed Eiweida, World Bank.

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  • عربي

• Local Economic Development - World Bank Local Economic Development site.

• CDS - Taking Stock and Signposting the Way Forward. A discussion report for DFID (UK) and the World Bank, July 2000.

• Urban Development Strategy and City Assistance Program in East Asia. Final Draft Report, September 2000. Pacific Consultants International, ALMEC Corporation and Nikken Sekkei Ltd.

• Asian City Development Strategies Fukuoka Conference 2000. Implementation of City Development Strategies in Urbanizing and Decentralizing Asia.

• City Development Strategies - The Cities Alliance Approach. A discussion paper summarizing the most important characteristics of a city development strategy

• Formulating City Development Strategies in China. Douglas Webster, Stanford University.

• Cities as Economic Development Tools. Nigel Harris, University College London.

• Introduction to the South African Cities Network (SACN). Andrew Boraine, South African Cities Network.

• CDS Training Resources: City Management and Urban Development - World Bank Institute (WBI) Learning Programs.

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