Western Harbour Malmo

10 principles for Sustainable Cities

Michael O'Hare - April 6, 2009

Have you seen this excellent document from the Copenhagen Agenda for Sustainable Cities? They asked 50 of the world’s most important urban experts what it will take to create sustainable cities. Those asked included some of the people that helped inspire me to want to make Cities for People, such as Jan Gehl, Charles Landry, Jaime Lerner and Enrique PenĂ£losa.

So what did they come up with? The following 10 ideas:

  1. rediscover the city
  2. redefine city value
  3. involve everyday experts
  4. break down silos
  5. redistribute urban decision making
  6. de-design urban planning
  7. promote corporate urban responsibility
  8. go global
  9. embrace chaos, crisis and change
  10. encourage passion in urban leadership

I highly recommend you take a look, there’s some great stuff there. What do you think? Let me know.

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