City authorities face a range of concerns that are crucial for sustainable urban development and the well-being of their citizens. Here you can see their shared areas of focus and will soon be able to access examples of innovative projects that are going on around the world.
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Prosperous Cities
Challenge: Attracting investment, fostering entrepreneurship, and creating jobs while ensuring economic growth is sustainable and inclusive.
Focus: Developing policies that support local businesses, promote innovation, and attract new industries |
Sustainable Cities
Challenge: Addressing climate change, reducing carbon emissions, and managing natural resources sustainably.
Focus: Implementing green policies, promoting renewable energy, and improving waste management and recycling. |
Design-Led Cities
Challenge: Maintaining and upgrading housing and infrastructure, such as roads, public transport, water supply, and waste management systems. Focus: Zoning laws, urban density management, and promoting mixed-use developments. Improving public transit systems, and managing traffic congestion. |
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Healthy Cities
Challenge: Ensuring the safety and health of residents, particularly in the face of pandemics, crime, and natural disasters.
Focus: Strengthening public health infrastructure, improving emergency services, and ensuring community safety. |
Equitable Cities
Challenge: Addressing social inequalities, ensuring access to essential services, and fostering social cohesion.
Focus: Developing policies that promote inclusivity, affordable healthcare, and access to education. |
Participative Cities
Challenge: Ensuring transparent, accountable, and efficient governance while fostering citizen participation in decision-making.
Focus: Implementing e-governance tools, improving public service delivery, and encouraging civic engagement. |
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Child Friendly Cities
Challenge: Ensuring the wellbeing of children, families and future generations is at the heart of local policymaking.
Focus: Involving children, young people and families in local planning and design. |
Smart Cities
Challenge: Adapting to the digital age by incorporating technology into urban management and service delivery.
Focus: Developing smart city initiatives, improving broadband infrastructure, and using data analytics for better governance. |
Peaceful Cities
Challenge: Promoting compassionate practice and trauma/conflict resolution as key to the development of peaceful communities.
Focus: Developing policies that support residents in overcoming difference and that nurture the best of human values and capacities. |
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Wisdom-led Cities
Challenge: Ensuring that the local wisdom and knowledge systems of the past can be optimised with the technologies of the future.
Focus: Promoting local Indigenous involvement and participation in city design and bio-regional development. |
Life-Centred Cities
Challenge: Ensuring that flourishing acknowledges the interconnected and entangled nature of ecosystems.
Focus: Promoting Life-Centred Design and a Unitive Worldview & Narrative. |
Future Cities
Challenge: Ensuring that future cities optimise the flourishing of entire city ecosystems.
Focus: Promoting human habitats that are aligned with natural evolutionary patterns and principles. |
