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IDA approves urban development projects in Senegal and Turkey
Beginning in the 1960s, the World Bank Group considered a noticeable increase in the rate of urbanization around the globe. Two IDA credits approved in fiscal year 1972 incorporate innovative approaches to problems related to this trend. The $8 million Sites and Services Project in Senegal will provide home sites and public services for about 160,000 people in lower income brackets. A $2.3 million IDA credit to Turkey will finance the Istanbul Urban Development Project, an integrated urban development program which includes the development of high priority investment projects and the improvement of planning capabilities.
Resource Gallery
Sites and Services Project
P002280: Approved June 22, 1972
The profile contains project and financial information, and lists of project documents and archival records.
Istambul Urban Development Project
P008899: Approved June 22, 1972
The profile contains project and financial information, and lists of project documents and archival records.
Summary analyses for Sites and Services Project
May 15, 1972
The summary provides a brief description of the project (1382488).
Back-to-office report by project preparation mission team
Aug. 20, 1971
The report provides a full summary of the progress of the Sites and Services Project (1714698).
Sites and Services Project: Appraisal Report
Document date: June 7, 1972
The report describes the project, details its cost and financing, and describes its potential benefits.
New construction in the suburbs of Istanbul
1972
Slums being torn down and replaced with new high rise buildings in the suburbs of Istanbul (1729464; Credit: The World Bank).
Sites and Services Project: Project Completion Report
Document date: Oct. 31, 1983
The report reviews the performance of IDA's first urban sector project.
View of Istanbul with Galata bridge on the right
1972
The urban development project financed by IDA is intended to lay some of the basic groundwork for the planned metropolitan growth of Istanbul (1729464; Credit: The World Bank).
Site of future residential plots
1972
Operator and bulldozer clearing and levelling the land at the site of future residential plots in the Pikine area, Senegal (1727643; Credit: The World Bank).
