Every fast-growing city faces the same test: can its roads, utilities and land-use rules keep pace with the people arriving? This training course answers that question with a practical, decision-focused grounding in Urban Planning, built around the real trade-offs engineers and planners face when transport, land, and infrastructure investment all compete for the same budget.

Participants start by learning how to prioritise and structure infrastructure investment across competing city needs, then move into zoning and land-use tools that shape how a city actually grows on the ground. Alongside this, the course builds solid capability in transportation planning, so mobility, accessibility and future growth are planned together rather than as separate problems, and participants leave able to balance all three within one coherent city strategy.

The Smart City Growth programme is delivered by Arab British Fellowship Training Academy to build practical, well-rounded planning capability for engineers and urban development professionals.

Working through this course equips participants to:

• Prioritise and structure infrastructure investment decisions across competing city needs
• Apply zoning frameworks to guide land use and urban form
• Plan transportation planning strategies that support mobility, accessibility and growth together
• Coordinate land use, transport and infrastructure as one integrated planning system
• Apply core Urban Planning principles, codes and standards to real city-development projects
• Evaluate the social, economic and environmental impact of planning decisions before they are made

Who Should Attend

• Urban and regional planners shaping city development strategies
• Civil and infrastructure engineers working on urban development projects
• Transportation engineers and mobility planning professionals
• Government and municipal engineers overseeing infrastructure investment
• Any engineer or professional looking to strengthen their urban planning expertise

Module 1: Why Integrated City Planning Matters

• How land use, transport and infrastructure investment decisions interact in a growing city
• The role of Urban Planning in shaping modern cities and guiding their growth
• Key principles and frameworks that guide sound urban development

Module 2: Directing Infrastructure Investment

• Prioritising infrastructure investment across competing city needs
• Funding models and mechanisms for urban infrastructure projects
• Evaluating the long-term impact of investment decisions before committing budget

Module 3: Shaping Land Use Through Zoning

• Principles of zoning and land-use regulation
• Balancing residential, commercial and industrial land-use needs
• Using zoning tools to guide sustainable urban growth

Module 4: Planning Transportation for Growing Cities

• Fundamentals of transportation planning for urban areas
• Integrating public transit, roads and active mobility networks
• Aligning transport planning with land use and density goals

Module 5: From Integrated Strategy to Delivery

• Coordinating Urban Planning, transportation and infrastructure as one system
• Engaging stakeholders and managing growth, density and resilience
• Case studies and lessons learned from real city development projects