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Sustainable Development Goal number 11—Sustainable Cities and Communities—and New Urban Agenda promote a new framework for sustainable urbanization worldwide. Both institutional documents define strategies, frameworks and guidelines, for sustainable urban and regional planning, but also for urban management, so targets and indicators are a key issue to monitor how cities are achieving this particular eleventh sustainable development goal. This chapter will analyse firstly the impact of these new frameworks on master plans, as they are introducing several indicators about sustainable urban development, in addition to traditional urban planning based on regulatory standards: property rights, land use, zoning or built environment and population density indicators. Secondly, from UN-Habitat references to European Union urban policy to Spanish urban planning, it will analyse indicators expressed at SGD 11 or New Urban Agenda, but also indicators proposed by other European and national bodies for urban planning laws or urban management guidelines. Last, a definition of urban rights will be provided to open the discussion about improvement of indicators for sustainable urban development and achievement of urban (and human) rights.
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De Miguel González, R., Vallvé, M.LT. (2023). Sustainable Cities, Urban Indicators and Planning for the New Urban Agenda. Sustainable Developments Goals and the Rights to the City. In: De Lázaro Torres, M.L., De Miguel González, R. (eds) Sustainable Development Goals in Europe. Key Challenges in Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21614-5_11
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