Abstract

The city as a living space and organisational form of social life is particularly challenged in the context of future-proof and sustainable development: The big cities are focal points of change - its promoters and its victims. Material and social resources, innovation potential, cultural diversity, future fantasies and differentiated lifestyles develop, unite and concentrate in cities like nowhere else. At the same time, the big cities are the starting and culmination points of the crises of industrialised society.
There is no other place where ecological, economic and social problems come together so directly and in such a concentrated form. Using selected practical examples, experts from politics, administration, business and science will discuss which new strategies, measures and instruments can be used to resolve the resulting conflicts of objectives with regard to sustainable urban development and how the guiding principle of the "sustainable city" can be implemented with concrete measures.

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