National Urban Policy & Smart City Strategy Document, Summary Report

The current rate of urbanization will see 5.17 billion people living in urban areas by 2030. Urbanization has many features that can be leveraged to improve the livelihoods of all citizens – rural, peri-urban and urban. A National Urban Policy (NUP) is an important tool for governments that seek to manage and direct rapid urbanization, and to tap into urbanization’s positive effects while accommodating its inevitable stresses.

Urban and regional planning in Iran aims at promoting more productive, inclusive, sustainable and resilient urban development in the long term. In this regard, National Urban Policy programme (NUPP) in I. R. Iran can help establishing a framework for the overall process of urbanisation of the country. NUPP also promotes consolidating and sharing knowledge on urban policy at the global level. It is a tool for implementation and monitoring of global urban agendas, such as the New Urban Agenda, Paris Agreement, and Sendai Framework.

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