Vienna in focus: Mayor discuss sustainable urban development!
Vienna in focus: Mayor discuss sustainable urban development!
The Austrian capital Vienna is currently characterized by international urban development. The 14th Mayor Forum of the World Cities Summit will take place here from July 2 to 4, 2025. Over 60 cities have sent delegations to Vienna to discuss sustainable urban development together. The topic of the forum could not be more current: "sustainable urban development".
The event is organized by the Center for Liveable Cities (CLC) and Urban Redevelopment Authority (Ura) from Singapore. City managers and politicians meet to debate urban challenges and exchange best practice examples. Mayor Michael Ludwig will deal with Vienna's success in his presentations, in particular with regard to paid living space, flood protection and local recreation areas.excursions by Vienna
To offer the participant: some excursions are also planned. These lead to sights such as the Danube Island, the town hall, the Seestadt and the Karl Marx Hof. These places visited are exemplary for innovative urban development that takes place in Vienna. Also the fact that the city will appear as a host due to the "Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize", which Vienna received in 2020, suggests the importance of this event.
The price is awarded to cities that are characterized by sustainable and lively urban design. This award emphasizes Vienna's commitment in urban development and shows the internationally recognized role of the city in this area.
urgency of sustainable developments
In view of the rapid global urbanization, such events are of the greatest importance. According to the UN studies, the city population will more than double by 2050, and almost 70% of people will live in cities. But 60% of the infrastructure required still has to be built in order to supply all city dwellers: sufficiently inside. It is also worrying that energy and resource consumption in cities could generate about three quarters of global greenhouse gas emissions that are maximum permissible according to the Paris Agreement. Urban development has the potential to achieve great effects when small changes are initiated in the urban habitats.German development cooperation pursues the goal of promoting socially friendly, climate-friendly and resistant urban development, especially in growing small and medium-sized cities. Measures include advice on the integration of sustainable urbanization in development cooperation, the development of innovative approaches and the spread of this knowledge about platforms such as city transitions and urbanet.
With this internationally oriented conference, Vienna not only becomes the junction of urban developments, but also contributes decisively to create opportunities and solutions for the challenges of future city dwellers: inside.
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