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You can preview the IPCS cases below. For quicker searching, you can filter by locations and development topics. To access the full cases, including the downloadable case study materials, please visit the Case Study Library.

Locations
  • American Samoa
  • Bolivia
  • Brazil
  • China
  • Colombia
  • Dominican Republic
  • Former Soviet Republic
  • Ghana
  • India
  • Kenya
  • Mozambique
  • Nigeria
  • South Sudan
  • Sri Lanka
  • U.S. - Mexico Border
  • United States
  • Yemen
Topics
  • Advocacy Planning
  • Basic Services Provision
  • Best Practices
  • Collaborative Planning
  • Community-University Partnerships
  • Decentralization
  • Disaster Management
  • Displacement
  • Economic Development
  • Education
  • Environmental Planning
  • Food Systems
  • Governance
  • Greenbelts
  • Health Planning
  • Housing Policy
  • Humanitarian Assistance
  • Informal Settlements
  • Infrastructure Planning
  • Insurgent Planning
  • LGBTQI
  • Land Use Planning
  • Participatory Planning
  • Planning Ethics
  • Policy Implementation
  • Policy Transfer
  • Poverty Reduction
  • Privatization
  • Program Evaluation
  • Program Planning
  • Public Private Partnerships
  • Refugees
  • Regional Planning
  • Smart Growth
  • Social Justice
  • Solid Waste Management
  • Technocratic Planning
  • Transboundary Planning
  • Transportation Planning
  • Water Systems Planning
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Food for All: Policy Linking Food Insecurity and Farmers' Livelihoods - Brazil

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Watersheds Have no Borders: Wastewater Infrastructure Planning Along the Tijuana River - U.S.-Mexico Border

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The Point of No Return: Informal Settlement Upgrading - Brazil

 
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The Politics of Participation: Metropolitan Region Greenbelt Planning - Colombia

The Rio Beni Bridge: Collision of Different Visions on Development and the Environment - Bolivia

Disaster Aid and Traditional Governance - American Samoa

 
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Development & Displacement: The East-West Metro Project - India

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Better but not Best: Incremental Improvements and Bus Rapid Transit Planning - China

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Insurgent Environmental Planning: Waste Management in Informal Settlements and Community-University Partnerships - Dominican Republic

 
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Planning for Earthquake Safe Schools: Prioritizing Retrofits in the Former Soviet Republics - Former Soviet Republics

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Persecution and Displacement: Sheltering LGBTQI Refugees - Kenya

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The Authority to Plan: National Health Planning when Evidence and Politics Collide - Mozambique

 
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The Right to Water: The Role of the Private Sector in Urban Water Sector Reform - Nigeria

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Humanitarian Dilemmas: A Case Study on Organization Building in the Wake of Disaster - Sri Lanka

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Planning for Whom? Elite-Driven Development in Highly Stratified Urban Environments and the Role of Personal Values - Yemen

 
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Negotiating Institutional Pluralism - Ghana

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Planning in Post-Conflict Settings: The Case of South Sudan - South Sudan

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Asserting Immigrants' Right to the City - United States

 
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