While urbanization has been a core feature of global urban development for centuries, it does not always lead to sustainable development outcomes, especially in global South cities where the phenomenon is rapid and often unplanned. Framed around sustainable development thinking, this paper intends to provide critical analysis of sustainable urbanization by examining the barriers, drivers, processes, and outcomes associated with urban planning-led development. A case study research approach was applied in three major cities in Saudi Arabia to present convergence and divergence of urbanization-induced growth and development outcomes as well as urban planning limitations in a region that scholarly research on urbanization is recently emerging. Our findings show the critical relevance of an engaging urban planning practice across different scales of cities, and to the critical strategy of public participation for the promotion of urban planning-led development to addressing infrastructure inadequacies, inequalities, and environmental deterioration.

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城市化推动者：沙特阿拉伯实现城市规划主导的发展


虽然几个世纪以来，城市化一直是全球城市发展的核心特征，但它并不总是能带来可持续发展的结果，尤其是在全球南方城市，这种现象是迅速的，而且往往是无计划的。本文以可持续发展思维为框架，旨在通过研究与城市规划主导型发展相关的障碍、驱动因素、过程和结果，对可持续城市化进行批判性分析。在沙特阿拉伯的三个主要城市应用了案例研究研究方法，以展示城市化引起的增长和发展结果以及城市规划局限性的趋同和分歧，以及最近出现的城市化学术研究的地区。我们的研究结果表明，在不同规模的城市中，参与城市规划实践的关键相关性，以及公众参与促进城市规划主导的发展与解决基础设施不足、不平等和环境恶化的关键战略的关键相关性。