Contribution of City Development Strategies (CDS)

What is Contribution of CDS?

There are many different views on what a City Development Strategy is and how it should be developed, depending on a person’s region, culture and planning background. These varied opinions are also apparent when development partners agree to support a strategy; often, each partner builds on a different understanding of the concept according to respective background or experiences. The diverse views on what constitutes a CDS reflect the complexity of strategy development and urban governance. The issue becomes even more complicated when rising urbanisation rates and growing numbers of poor populations are taken into account; both of these global trends are putting enormous pressure on cities to develop in a more inclusive and participatory manner. Other factors – climate change, international financial crises, and continuous processes of decentralisation – are also exerting greater influence on cities and urban development than in previous decades. (Daphne Frank , 2011).

The concept of sustainable urban development

- Dynamic process to achieve suitable condition that address environment, economy, social and governance sustainable concerns.
- In developing country started from 1998.
- Four main contexts ratified in mentioned session:

• - Agenda 21
• - Rio statement about environment and development 1992
• - Main principles of earth forest sustainable management.
• - UNDP, ENR'S Handbook and Guidelines for Environmental Management and Sustainable Development

CDS- Concepts and definitions
Focus on:

• Liability
• Competitiveness
• Good Government
• Bank ability

We should remind United Nations organization conference on human environment, resulted in Stockholm proclamation in 1972 and this conference was point of inflection in history of human formal view to natural sources and operation systems from earth. Further meetings eventually leaded to formation of environmental conference and development or “earth session” in 1992.