New urban planning

New urban planning is a term which was coined in a position paper set out in conjunction with the "Declaration of Principles and Best Practices for Sustainable Urbanization", a declaration resulting from the World Planners Congress 2006 which sought to reconnect planning with the challenges posed by rapid urbanization, the urbanization of poverty, hazards from climate change, and the Millennium Development Goals (particularly MDG 7).

According to this paper, "new urban planning" is explicitly pro-poor and supportive of social, environmental and economic sustainability. "New urban planning" identifies an urgent need for a transformation of capacity for governance of human settlements, given the increasing scale of refugees and slum settlement. [Commonwealth Association of Planners: [http://www.commonwealth-planners.org/papers/reinvent.pdf Reinventing planning: a new governance paradigm for managing Human settlements] ]

Aims of New urban planning

"New urban planning" aims to:
* Reduce vulnerability to natural disasters
* Create environmentally-friendly cities
* Reduce new slum formation
* Build sustainable economic growth
* Promote conflict resolution and safer cities [Commonwealth Association of Planners: [http://www.commonwealth-planners.org/papers/reinvent.pdf Reinventing planning: a new governance paradigm for managing Human settlements] ]

Principles of New urban planning

The 10 principles of "New urban planning" are listed as;
* 1. Sustainability
* 2. Integrated Planning
* 3. Integrated with Budgets
* 4. Planning with Partners
* 5. Subsidiarity
* 6. Market Responsiveness
* 7. Access to Land
* 8. Appropriate Tools
* 9. Pro-poor and Inclusive
* 10. Cultural Variation [Commonwealth Association of Planners: [http://www.commonwealth-planners.org/papers/reinvent.pdf Reinventing planning: a new governance paradigm for managing Human settlements] ]

Signatories to New urban planning

The position paper published in conjunction with the 2006 "Declaration of Principles and Best Practices for Sustainable Urbanization" was endorsed by the following signatories;
* Paul Farmer (Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, American Planning Association)
* Michel Frojmovic (Canadian Institute of Planners/Institut Canadien des Urbanistes)
* Cliff Hague (President and Chief Executive, Commonwealth Association of Planners)
* Clive Harridge (President, Royal Town Planning Institute)
* Shipra Narang (Human Settlements Officer, UN-Habitat)
* Ron Shishido (Past President Canadian Institute of Planners/Institut Canadien des Urbanistes)
* Dave Siegel (President, American Planning Association)
* Paul Taylor (Director, UN-Habitat Brussels Office)
* Jan Vogelij (President of the ECTP, the European Council of Spatial Planners) [Commonwealth Association of Planners: [http://www.commonwealth-planners.org/papers/reinvent.pdf Reinventing planning: a new governance paradigm for managing Human settlements] ]

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