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Suzuki, Hiroaki

Urban Development and Resilience Unit, Sustainable Development Network
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Sustainable urban development, Transport and land use integration, Municipal finance, Land value capture, Infrastructure finance, Privatization, Public enterprise restructuring
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0000-0002-2005-1687
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Urban Development and Resilience Unit, Sustainable Development Network
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Last updated: January 31, 2023
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Hiroaki Suzuki is the former lead urban specialist of the World Bank. He has more than 40 years of operational, research and academic experiences in infrastructure, urban and public sectors at the World Bank, the Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund, Japan (OEF/current Japan International Cooperation Agency/ JICA) and several universities in Tokyo. He specializes in sustainable urban development, transport and land use integration, land value captures, municipal finance, infrastructure finance and public enterprise restructuring and privatization. During his 27-year tenure at the World Bank, he led many innovative lending operations including,” India Coal Sector Rehabilitation”, “Tamil Nadu Urban Development Fund” and “Shino-Singapore Tianjin Eco City”. His major publications from the World Bank include: Eco2 Cities: Ecological Cities as Economic Cities (2010); Transforming Cities with Transit: Transit and Land-Use Integration for Sustainable Urban Development (2013); and Financing Transit-Oriented Development with Land Values: Adapting Land Value Capture in Developing Countries, (2015).  He lives with his family in Virginia, USA. 

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    Transforming Cities with Transit : Transit and Land-Use Integration for Sustainable Urban Development
    (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2013-01-03) Cervero, Robert; Suzuki, Hiroaki; Iuchi, Kanako
    This study explores the complex process of transit and land-use integration in rapidly growing cities in developing countries. It first identifies barriers to and opportunities for effective coordination of transit infrastructure and urban development. It then recommends a set of policies and implementation measures for overcoming these barriers and exploiting these opportunities. Well-integrated transit and land development create urban forms and spaces that reduce the need for travel by private motorized vehicles. Areas with good access to public transit and well-designed urban spaces that are walkable and bikeable become highly attractive places for people to live, work, learn, play, and interact. Such environments enhance a city's economic competitiveness, reduce local pollution and global greenhouse gas emissions, and promote inclusive development. These goals are at the heart of transit-oriented development (TOD), an urban form that is increasingly important to sustainable urban futures. This book uses a case study approach. It draws lessons from global best-case examples of transit-oriented metropolises that have direct relevance to cities in developing countries and elsewhere that are currently investing in bus rapid transit (BRT) and other high-capacity transit systems. It also reports the results of two original in-depth case studies of rapidly growing and motorizing cities that introduced extended BRT systems: Ahmedabad, India and Bogota, Colombia. Two shorter case studies enrich the understanding of factors that are critical to transforming cities with transit.
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    Financing Transit-Oriented Development with Land Values : Adapting Land Value Capture in Developing Countries
    (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2015-01-15) Suzuki, Hiroaki; Murakami, Jin; Hong, Yu-Hung; Tamayose, Beth
    Cities in developing countries are experiencing unprecedented urban growth. Unfortunately, this is often accompanied by the negative impacts of sprawl as a result of rapid motorization such as congestion, air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, inefficient use of energy and time, and unequal accessibility. As these cities are often under severe fiscal constraints, they face great challenges in financing capital-intensive mass transit systems to reverse the course of these negative trends. Development-based land value capture (DBLVC) financing schemes being practiced in Asian megacities like Hong Kong SAR, China, and Tokyo have helped them not only to generate funds for transit investment and operational and maintenance costs but also to promote sustainable urban development through transit-oriented development (TOD). Many rapidly growing cities in developing countries have the conditions for introducing DBLVC – namely, strong economic growth, rising real incomes and increased motorization and congestion levels – all of which cause land value appreciation within proximity of transit stations or corridors. If adapted well to local contexts, DBLVC schemes have great potential to become an important strategic apparatus of urban finance and planning for cities in developing countries. Through a careful analysis of various case studies, this book provides strategies, policies, and methodologies that policy makers and practitioners can apply in developing their own DBLVC schemes for transit financing.
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    Eco2 Cities : Ecological Cities as Economic Cities
    (World Bank, 2010) Dastur, Arish; Suzuki, Hiroaki; Moffatt, Sebastian; Yabuki, Nanae; Maruyama, Hinako
    This book provides an overview of the World Bank's Eco2 cities : ecological cities as economic cities initiative. The objective of the Eco2 cities initiative is to help cities in developing countries achieve a greater degree of ecological and economic sustainability. The book is divided into three parts. Part one describes the Eco2 cities initiative framework. It describes the approach, beginning with the background and rationale. Key challenges are described, and lessons are drawn from cities that have managed to turn these challenges into opportunities. A set of four key principles is introduced. These principles are the foundation upon which the initiative is built. They are: (1) a city-based approach enabling local governments to lead a development process that takes into account their specific circumstances, including their local ecology; (2) an expanded platform for collaborative design and decision making that accomplishes sustained synergy by coordinating and aligning the actions of key stakeholders; (3) a one-system approach that enables cities to realize the benefits of integration by planning, designing, and managing the whole urban system; and (4) an investment framework that values sustainability and resiliency by incorporating and accounting for life-cycle analysis, the value of all capital assets, and a broader scope for risk assessment in decision making. Part two presents a city-based decision support system that introduces core methods and tools to help cities as they work toward applying some of the core elements and stepping stones. Part two looks into methods for collaborative design and decision making and methods to create an effective long-term framework able to help align policies and the actions of stakeholders. Part three consists of the Field Reference Guide. The guide contains background literature designed to support cities in developing more in-depth insight and fluency with the issues at two levels. It provides a city-by-city and sector-by-sector lens on urban infrastructure. The next section comprises a series of sector notes, each of which explores sector-specific issues in urban development.