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Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Contribution of city development strategies as a strategic urban planning approach toward sustainable development



Sustainable development is really need nowadays not only in Malaysia but also another country. Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability to meet future needs. To achieve this sustainable development, many way or method are using and one of this method is City Development Strategies (CDS).

A City Development Strategy is a tool that helps a city harness the potential of urbanization. It also enables a city to develop a coordinated, institutional framework to make the most of opportunities. And, perhaps most importantly, a CDS gives residents a chance to have a voice in the future of the place where they live.

The Cities Alliance supports cities in preparing city development strategies that link their economic growth and poverty reduction objectives, often including citywide slum upgrading strategies. Urban poverty is one of the key issues to be solved in achieving sustainable development. This is because poverty will bring other problems in the city such as squatters and crime. So CDS are required in this situation to apply for achieving goal.

For example CDS already use at Douala Cameroon to reduce poverty in urban area. Poverty in Douala create so many problems such as squatters, crime, jobless and these three problem are related each other which means are caused by poverty. People are jobless and they build squatters and when they don’t have a money the make a crime like robbery or as a snatchers to their live. So all kind of this thing is not good for future and for solution CDS are implement as strategic urban planning approach to achieve sustainable development.

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