This research focuses on the structure of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) and their applicability to urban design projects. Systems thinking was introduced as a method to help understand how the UN SDGs can be localized in the design process, and specifically in articulating the design situation and its stakeholders. We presented a series of case studies that show how the UN SDGs can be integrated by thinking about the municipal operations, the actors, and the metrics for understanding this alignment.
