Equitable planning ensures that all residents – including the poorest, most marginalised, and least politically powerful – benefit from urban development.
- Affordable housing obligations in spatial plans: inclusionary zoning requirements, social housing quotas in new development, and anti-displacement policies in regeneration areas.
- Universal design principles: accessibility for persons with disabilities, elderly residents, and parents with young children built into public space and transport planning standards.
- Disaggregated social impact assessment: analysis of planning decisions by gender, age, income, disability, and ethnicity to identify differential impacts before decisions are made.
- Slum upgrading as a planning priority: in-situ upgrading with tenure regularisation, service delivery, and community involvement as the preferred approach to informal settlement, rather than relocation or demolition.
- Gender-equitable land and property rights: Equal statutory rights for women to own, inherit, use, and transfer land and property; joint titling for married couples; recognition of widows' inherited rights.
Examples
Medellín – Metrocable and Integrated Urban Projects