Sustainable urban development. Liveable, green and connected - working together to create tomorrow's cities

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  • In our fastpaced and globally networked age, in which over half the world’s population lives in cities that use a disproportionate amount of natural resources and emit three quarters of the world’s greenhouse gases, we urgently need intelligent answers to the huge challenges facing us. We need the potential our cities hold to enable us to pursue a sustainable and socially equitable development path.

    In processing the experience gained through our activities and seeing a possibility to help drive the transformation process taking place in cities, we – i.e. the entire team working on urban development issues – have taken the opportunity to present in this brochure the advisory approaches GIZ is taking in the field of sustainable urbanisation and urban development, illustrating their implementation with examples from our project portfolio.

    These are divided up into six fields of action within sustainable urban development, which seek to promote cities that are:

    • well governed and citizen-centred

    • resilient, low-emission and resource-effi cient

    • productive and creative

    • inclusive, social and safe

    • collaborative and inter-municipal

    • well connected.

    We are confident that it will give you a valuable and insightful overview of GIZ’s work, highlighting its diversity and relevance for the future.

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  • Published by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
    Brochure, 83 pages, Eschborn and Bonn, October 2016

  • Additional Information:
  • This brochure was produced between March 2015 and March 2016 as part of the work of the urban and regional development cluster with input from colleagues in Germany and abroad. The cross-discipline working group discusses and provides information on current issues in urban and regional development.

  • Date of publication:
  • October 2016
  • Rights:
  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

    Authors: Michael Engel, Jochen Gauly, Sabine Meyer-Zenk, Felix Volgmann
    Design: creative republic Thomas Maxeiner Kommunikationsdesign, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

  • Contact Information:
  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

    Registered offices:
    Bonn and Eschborn, Germany
    Dag-Hammarskjöld-Weg 1-5
    65760 Eschborn, Germany
    T +49 228 44 60 - 0
    F +49 228 44 60 - 17 66

  • Languages:
  • English
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