Planning for resilient urban growth: Tools for proactively managing rapid urban growth

The purpose of this handbook is to illustrate how rapidly growing cities can use urban growth projections to develop and implement municipal action programs to ensure that their future spatial expansion is orderly, cost effective, equitable and sustainable, leading to improved urban resilience.

The handbook addresses the risk perspective of unplanned urban growth in risk prone areas, and stresses the need to steer urban expansion and the development of new infrastructure to areas less risk prone to reduce disaster risk. The handbook has been designed to help cities assess the enabling environment necessary to carry out an urban expansion program and to take the first steps towards implementing such a program.