Urban planning should consider sustainability and resilience as key aspects of smart city planning, aiming for a complex systems approach and synchronization between inter-urban and intra-urban processes.

Sustainability and Resilience in Smart City Planning: A Review

Sustainable urban development requires ambitious policies to limit energy consumption, reduce pollution, and protect natural areas and arable land, while promoting alliance-building among those supporting equity and environmental values.

Urban Planning and Sustainable Development

An integrated urban planning and development process can support sustainable urban development efforts and advance sustainability agendas in cities.

Rethinking sustainable urban development: towards an integrated planning and development process

The Urban Planning Sustainability Framework (UPSUF) integrates sustainability evaluation, design solutions, and planning system processes, promoting sustainable urban development and fostering partnerships between public and private sectors.

An urban planning sustainability framework: Systems approach to blue green urban design

Integrated Strategies for Sustainable Urban Development (ISUD) in Barcelona and Évora promote sustainable urban planning, but need stronger citizen involvement and can face challenges in medium-sized towns facing depopulation trends.

Sustainable and Integrated Urban Planning and Governance in Metropolitan and Medium-Sized Cities

Sustainable development in metropolitan contexts requires a holistic, long-term planning approach, focusing on compact urban forms, reduced automobile use, ecosystem protection, and improved equity.

Planning for Metropolitan Sustainability

This Special Issue aims to gather diverse literature on urban planning and sustainable land use, contributing to addressing global challenges of sustainable urban development.

Urban Planning and Sustainable Land Use

Smart sustainable cities offer promising solutions to urban sustainability, but more research is needed to address key limitations and develop a convincing model for strategic urban development.

Smart sustainable cities of the future: An extensive interdisciplinary literature review

Compact urban development, based on social, economic, and environmental principles, can achieve a balanced balance between social, economic, and environmental goals.

URBAN PLANNING WITH THE GOALS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

This review highlights the current progress in research on sustainable cities, planning, and assessment, providing guidance for local authorities and city governments to work towards urban sustainability in the future.

Urban planning and sustainable cities

The compact city model contributes to sustainable development, but economic goals dominate over environmental and social goals, despite the three dimensions being equally important.

Compact city planning and development: Emerging practices and strategies for achieving the goals of sustainability

Urban planning, integrating sustainability goals into community goals, offers a path towards a more sustainable metropolitan future.

Planning for more sustainable urban development

Sustainable urban planning in Morogoro Municipal Council, Tanzania, requires a communicative strategy that integrates social, economic, and environmental imperatives to curtail urban sprawl and create a viable city system.

A Geospatial Approach to Sustainable Urban Planning: Lessons for Morogoro Municipal Council, Tanzania

Integrating sustainable development principles into strategic planning documents can enhance urban development while mitigating negative consequences.

IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PRINCIPLES OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN STRATEGIC PLANNING OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Sustainability science can revolutionize urban planning by focusing on long-term consequences, collaborative planning, and considering population and institutional responses to change.

Sustainability Science in the Light of Urban Planning

This study highlights the need for an integrated urban and regional energy planning framework to address the diverse dimensions of sustainable planning, aiding urban actors in developing energy projects.

Urban energy planning procedure for sustainable development in the built environment: A review of available spatial approaches

This paper presents an ICT-enabled participatory planning framework for smart city development, promoting a technology-pulled approach that matches smartness to urban functions and contexts.

Tools and Technologies for Planning the Development of Smart Cities

Urban social sustainability focuses on equitable access and community sustainability, with a relationship between urban form and social sustainability.

The social dimension of sustainable development: Defining urban social sustainability

What is the Sustainable urban planning and development?

These studies suggest that sustainable urban planning and development involve integrating sustainability and resilience into urban planning, implementing ambitious policies to limit energy consumption and pollution, fostering public-private partnerships, and promoting compact urban forms and equity.