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• Basic and primary education, skill development and knowledge about the urban world;
• Basic health care, potable water, solid waste disposal and hygiene;
• Urban facilities like storm drainage, street lights, roads and footpaths;
• Recreation and entertainment;
• Transport, energy, communications;
• Public participation and debate;
• Finance and investment mechanisms;
• Land and/or built-up space where goods and services can be produced;
• Rudimentary economic infrastructure;
• Intelligent urbanism provides a wide range of zones, districts and precincts where activities and
functions can occur without detracting from one another.
Principle 8: Regional Integration
Intelligent Urbanism envisions the city as an organic part of a larger environmental, socio-economic and
cultural-geographic system, which is essential for its sustainability, seeing a city development and its
hinterland as a single holistic process of planning. The region may be defined as the catchment area from
which employees and students commute into the city on a daily basis; or from which people choose to visit
one city, as opposed to another, for business, shopping, entertainment, health care and education; or else.
Economically the city region may include the hinterland that depends on its wholesale markets, banking
facilities, transport hubs and information exchanges. In this context, Intelligent Urbanism understands that
the social and economic region linked to a city also has a physical form, or a geographic character.
Principle 9: Balanced Movement
Intelligent Urbanism advocates integrated transport systems comprising a balance of modal splits
between walking, cycling, driving, and rail or bus-based mass rapid transit. This principle accepts automobile
system, but it should not be made essential by design. A well planned metropolis would be dense and
intensive along mass transit corridors and around major urban hubs, functioning as urban conviviality and
public access to urban services and facilities. Therefore, if the movement of all corridors are in balance,
urban social and economic infrastructures can be equally intensified as well.
Principle 10: Institutional Integrity
This principle emphasizes that good practices can only be realized through accountable, transparent,
competent and participatory local governance, founded on appropriate data bases, due entitlements, civic
responsibilities and duties. The institutional framework can only operate where there is a Structure Plan, or
other document, or equivalent mechanism, which acts as a legal instrument to guide the growth,
development and enhancement of the city. It defines, for instance, how the land will be used, serviced, and
accessed. The Structure Plan is intended to provide owners and investors with predictable future scenarios.
There must be a system of participation by the city stakeholders in the preparation of plans, in a form of
institutionalized public meetings, hearings of objections and transparent processes of addressing objections,
in promoting public participation. For urban development activities, the main actors also must be
institutionalized or professionally qualified or licensed, so there is a guarantee that they truly understand
the issues, plan objectives, configurations, standards, the codes and regulations, methodologies, and so on.
This applies to architects, planners, contractors, and other designated consultants, civil engineering and
M&E, for instance. Finally, there must be legislation creating statutory Local Authorities, and empowering
them to act, manage, invest, service, protect, promote and facilitate urban development.
Intelligent Urbanism insists that cities, local authorities, regional development commissions and planning
agencies be professionally managed. City Managers can be hired to manage the delivery of services, the
planning and management of planned development, the maintenance of utilities and the creation of
amenities. In this context, Intelligent Urbanism fosters the evolution of institutional systems that enhance
transparency, accountability and rational public decision making.