Innovative Land-use Planning and Inclusionary Housing Strategies to Transform Cities in the Post-Covid Times

Cities are growing demographically as well as territorially based on a pervasive process of informal land development propelled by informal land and housing markets that generate slums, social and spatial exclusion, and unsustainable and costly patterns of urbanization. This training event highlights the essential role that land use ordinances, urban planning and housing strategies can play to reverse this trend and generate urban inclusion and sustainable and more equitable cities. The session provides an in-depth understanding of this process and develops a set of new practical skills drawn from the practice in urban economics, land-use planning and housing policies to support the formulation inclusionary policies and strategies that adequately respond to the challenges that the post pandemic era has introduced in cities. Through practical insights in the operations of land markets and the various instruments that should be used to generate more inclusionary housing, participants to the training session will be more equipped to tackle growing issues of inequitable economic growth and lack of housing. For example, the growth of intermediate cities and their new demands for affordable serviced land that is increased in the pandemic, and how to adopt innovative tools for guiding land use and planning while they contribute to create a suitable land base finance for urban infrastructure. This training will therefore better equip participants to tackle these new challenges for cities in a transformative and innovative manner.