- The Role of CDSs in Sustainable Development in Developing Countries    101 kb by    Rasooli, Mostafa & Badarulzaman, Nurwati & Jafaar, Mastura | rasooli1352@yahoo.com    Short Outline Do the CDSs have been successful to achieve sustainability? Abstract Today, one of the important concerns of cities in the world’s competitive conditions is advancing through the sustainable development, based on the relative and competitive advantages, in order to be able to provide safe, comfortable, and desirable conditions for the citizens, and to provide a base for competition among the cities. In order for this objective to be achieved, cities all over the world have engaged into defining the Vision and designing its required strategies in various forms. Providing the City Development Strategies (CDS) or other related definitions, Strategic Planning, and establishing the structures of strategic management are all the various forms of approaching to the mentioned objective, especially in developing countries. Accordingly, many theorists and researchers in the field of Management and Urban Planning have gone through the explaining of the theoretical bases, forms of the accomplishment, and the strengths and weaknesses. However, study of using these approaches in different cities would lead us to know that each city has different proportion of success to achieve the sustainability. this article explore the role and the proportion of success of CDSs to achieve the sustainability in developing counties. Some of CDSs funding by Cities Alliance will survey in this article. Keywords: CDS, sustainable development, developing countries, Cities Alliance Keywords CDS, sustainable development, developing countries, Cities Alliance Case Study presented on the ISOCARP Congress 2010: Sustainable City - Developing World   Click to open the full paper as pdf document   Click to send an email to the author(s) of this paper