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Frank Jean D'hondt

Frank Jean D'hondt

Mentor, Cities Forum

Frank Jean D'hondt is an urban and regional planner with more than three decades of experience worldwide. He served as Secretary General of ISOCARP – the International Society of City and Regional Planners – from 2019 to 2025, and has led planning and urban development assignments for UN-Habitat and other UN agencies, with a focus on strategic spatial planning, urban regeneration, climate resilience, and planning systems reform. He is a mentor of Cities Forum, through which this article was prepared.

Articles by Frank Jean D'hondt

  1. Global urban goals: who asked the planners? 

    Frank Jean D'hondt

    Cities — Global

    SDG 11, the New Urban Agenda and the International Guidelines on Urban and Territorial Planning all rely on planners to put them into practice. Yet no one has conducted a representative survey of planners, asking whether these frameworks have changed their work, or whether the planning laws they work under even allow what the frameworks call for

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