Subject(s): City planning in Sustainable development in Planning. -- Community development, Urban in Case studies. -- Making an urbanizing world needs new approaches to settlement planning : national and regional development, urbanization of poverty and its implications, environmental imperatives -- Pointers to sustainable settlements : No sustainable development without sustainable urbanization, governance decentralization and subsidiarity, adequate shelter for all, economic opportunity and service, environmental justice and environmentally sustainable cities, diversity and equity -- Practices, processes and skills - Analytical and cognitive skills : Understanding environmental dimensions of sustainable settlements, understanding the economic dimensions f sustainable settlements, understanding social dimensions/ cultural dimensions -- Communication, negotiation and inclusion : Practice, communicate, interact, integrated development plans across a local authority in South Africa, conflict resolution, water connection for urban poor, housing for urban poor, building inclusion through the planning aid program, mainstreaming gender into local policy agenda -- Being strategic : Strategic action in integrated action, post tsunami reconstruction and rehabilitation in Sri Lanka, strategic response to social exclusion and neighborhood decline in Netherlands, participation for neighbourhood plans in Kitale leadership skills and selling the vision, leadership and vision for scaling up of Romani school desegregation -- Management : Managing and accounting for budgets, finance gap at the local level for effective community and sustainable partnership, building and sustainable partnerships, partnering for more efficient and affordable waster supply, initiating inclusive processes at city scale, dynamic planning for an integrated development strategy in Niger delta, improving municipal governance in Dondo institutionalizing and mainstreaming, mainstreaming community led process for housing and urban poverty alleviation -- Monitoring and learning : Innovation circle, shack dwellers international- learning through community exchange, rapid urban growth, NGO, education and research -- Changing - places, skills and planning