What are the key approaches in addressing urban issues and challenges?
• Stakeholder partnerships. Cities partner with private sector, other cities, and organizations to exchange information, build capacities, expand resources and enhance revenues, and implement improvements in urban management. • Formulation of city development strategies. Several cities across the region have formulated development strategies based on long-term visions and an analysis of their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Cities recognized the essential link and complementarity between national development policies and city development strategies. • Inter-local cooperation. There is a growing appreciation for the linkages between rural and urban areas, particularly in terms of inter-local cooperation in the face of the emergence of city-regions or multi-modal metropolitan areas. City-regions are becoming the foci for integrated urban development, which is blurring the traditional distinction between “rural” and “urban”. • Cities as ecosystems. With the increasing in
