Resilient Cities 2018 – ICLEI Global Resilient Urban Futures: Where We Are and Where We Need to Go Resilient Urban Futures: Where we are and where we need to go is published as part of the Resilient Cities 2018 – The Global Forum on Urban Resilience series and contains a summary with key messages from , […]
As part of LAG21’s Global Sustainable Municipality in NRW (GNK NRW) Closing Event, Annette Turmann (Service Agency Communities in One World) and Dr. Klaus Reuter (LAG21) presented background information and results of the project that began 2016 and ended this year April and saw the participation of 15 model municipalities of 19,000 and up to one million inhabitants. Their commitment to implement Agenda 2030 and realize individual SDGs is reflected in their financial commitment and newly created strategic planning within GNK NRW.
As part of LAG21’s Global Sustainable Municipality in NRW (GNK NRW) Closing Event, Jens Martens from Global Policy Forum addressed the relevance of Agenda 2030 as a guiding framework, not only on the state and regional, but also on the local level. In order to implement Agenda 2030 on the local level, individual SDG indicators need to be determined and subsequently monitored. In the process, networking and knowledge sharing between municipalities can help to accelerate the progress among them and upstream information sharing inform the state and country level. In the end Martens proposes six key areas of activities to overcome four future challenges he identifies to localize SDGs.
Feature Friday Beyond The Cult Of Human-Centered Design [Picture: Bernhard Lang/Getty Images] Find a summary of the article below; to access the full version visit FastCoDesign.com. Negative Product or Service Design Features While human-centered design and design thinking focuses on empathy and understanding users, their values and experience, designing for the individual can have disastrous long-term […]
In total 15 model municipalities participated at Global Sustainable Municipality in NRW (GNK NRW) [eng: Global Sustainable Municipality in NRW] and came together at LAG21’s (Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft 21/ Federal State Working Group 21) Closing Event to talk about the process and results of implementing their own local sustainability strategy to realize Agenda 2030’s SDGs.
VHS Bonn Lecture – Southeast Asia Jakarta – Between Cultural Diversity and Religious Division [Picture: Bagus Ghufron] Jakarta, capitol of Indonesia, is the biggest city of South-East Asia and possess a 13-times higher population density than the Ruhr area in Germany. Most recently, changing social dynamics led to religious-political tensions in the capitol of a country that was […]
As promulgated in Rwanda’s Vision 2020 and outlined in Kigali’s Masterplan 2040, Kigali aspires to be a leader in city development, and a “City of Urban Excellence” in lifestyle and work-life balance by 2040. The projected population growth of Kigali, rising from 1.3 million in 2012 to 3.8 million in 2040, bears the hope of changing the character and thus external perception of the city, of transforming it into a metropolis with a vibrant economy and increased internationality and cultural diversity.
VHS Bonn Event – Urban Development in the City of Bonn Bonn’s Fear of Heights [Picture: © Axel Kirch / CC BY-SA 4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons), CC BY-SA 4.0, Link] . Speaker Dr. Martin Bredenbeck Nikolaus Decker Sigurd Trommer #Bonn's Fear of Heights – Vertical #densification as the only solution for Bonn reaching […]
Growing digitalization covers all areas of life: work, mobility, education, home & living, shopping – everything is transforming. City of Bonn wishes to become a Smart City too, to become more environmental friendly and increase the Quality of Life of its citizens. What has Bonn already achieved in the quest of becoming a Smart City? What does it offer to whom? At what cost?
VHS Bonn Lecture – South-East Asia Shanghai – An Asian Metropolis with European Influences By J. Patrick Fischer – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link Shanghai is one of China’s 13 metropolises, the country’s biggest city and one of China’s main industrial centers. Throughout history Europe and the US, having their own concessions carved out after the First Opium […]