Sarajevo is facing a key moment in its trajectory of urban growth and is in urgent need of innovative, integrated and sustainable approaches to urban development. At the same time, an overarching framework to orient urban development and planning is missing and therefore, the planning processes as well as the necessary capacities need to be improved. Urban planning also needs to better integrate aspects related to the environment (including air pollution) as well as climate change.

Transparent and inclusive urban planning approaches are established in Sarajevo contributing to economic growth enabled by a climate resilient and sustainable urban planning.

The Project will support the drafting and further elaboration of the cantonal Urban Plan through a participative process that will include the Canton, the City, Municipalities, the University of Sarajevo, urban professionals as well as the citizens. A multi-faceted four-year intervention will promote good urban planning practices as well as the coordination among all stakeholders of urban planning in Sarajevo. The capacities of the stakeholders will be further strengthened, benefiting also from the cooperation with the City of Zurich and the transfer of the state-of the-art knowwledge on urban planning by ETHZ.

Institutionalization: A well-capacitated and participatory integral urban planning system ensures conditions for sustainable, inclusive and transparent urban planning in Sarajevo.

Urban Planning Practices: Knowledge for innovative urban planning approaches is built, practices based on state-of-the-art know-how are established and urban planning is visualized enabling prosperous socio-economic development in Sarajevo.

Urban Transformation: The urban planning and designing will be made visible and participatory planning approaches will be applied with the urban transformation of selected areas.

Expected results:  

Bringing together the main stakeholders of urban planning (at political and expert level) and build necessary capacities

Drafting and elaboration of the Urban Plan including a visualization of the urban planning

Peer Learning and knowledge exchange with the City of Zurich

Implementation of small-scale interventions for local population and design of urban prototypes