The aim of “Sustainable City – a Swedish partnership initiative” is to offer a holistic concept for sustainable urban development. Main parties from Sweden are the Swedish Government through the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of the Environment and the Swedish environmental technology industry through the Swedish Trade Council.
The ambition of the project “The Sustainable City” is to gather and communicate compre-hensive knowledge on the most innovative and inspiring sustainable urban solutions.
It is our hope that the project will stimulate representatives from national and local governments, industry, NGO’s, the academic world, media, financial institutions, international organizations etc. to further discuss and share knowledge and experiences in the field of applied environmental technology and management.
The Swedish industry is now organized in several networks to enable the shortest, possible way from vision to implementation.
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The overall VISION
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to develop a HOLISTIC CONCEPT FOR SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT primarily based on experiences and best-practice. All aspects of sustainability should be considered. Objectives for each aspect should be fulfilled at the same time as each aspect contributes to the entirety in a well-balanced and harmonic way.
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to use an INTEGRATED APPROACH where different fields of actions will be coordinated and combined in an optimal way. MULTI-DISCIPLINARY ACTIVITIES AND ACTIONS will be used as tools to create integrated concepts, ideas, strategies and practical solutions. Examples of such activities are urban governance, urban planning, education, IT-concepts and citizen participation.
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to put special focus on how urban planning may be used as a framework for developing SYNERGIES between different fields of actions and activities. Urban planning has the potential to be used as a platform for BROAD SYSTEMS APPROACH whereby different services and products will be combined.
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to develop a concept which may be adapted to different development levels of cities and towns as well as different planning situations, for example PLANNING OF NEW TOWNS AND RENEWAL OF EXISTING CITIES/TOWNS.
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to develop a concept which could promote the development of INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP AND CO-OPERATION among public authorities on all levels, private industry and research institutions in finding sustainable solutions in an urban context.
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to ATTRACT AND INSPIRE decision-makers and citizens in developed and developing countries as well as representatives for international organisations by focusing on the sustainable city in a global context.
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- 95% of the urban growth will take place in the developing world
- the proportion of people living in cities is expected to increase
- the urban percentage is expected to rise especially in africa and asia
2015 = 358 CITIES with more than 1 MILLION PEOPLE
27 MEGA-CITIES with more than 10 MILLION PEOPLE
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the generation principle of the BRUNDTLAND REPORT |
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the MILLENNIUM DECLARATION – to improve life conditions for 100 million slum inhabitants until 2020 |
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the key objectives of the ”COALITION OF SUSTAINABLE URBANISATIONS” |
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- to help cities realize their crucial contributions to sustainable development
- to strengthen the capacity of local actors and local authorities
- to promote cohesion and collective transfer of knowledge
The project “The Sustainable City” has the overall objective to promote a sustainable development of cities (a sustainable urbanization) from economical, social, ecological and spatial dimensions. The central principle is well known: in the often-quoted words from the 1987 Bruntland report:
“Humanity has the ability to make development sustainable – to ensure that it meets the need of the present without compromising the ability of the future generations to meet their needs”
(World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987)
The “millennium declaration” formulated the objective to improve the life conditions for 100 million slum inhabitants until 2020.
From this starting-point the initiative relates directly to the three key objectives formulated by the “Coalition for Sustainable Urbanisation” (first draft: 20 April 2002). |
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EXPERIENCES
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swedish examples of SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT around the globe
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AFRICA
EGYPT Tenth of Ramadan
PAKISTAN Karachi
LIBERIA Nimba and Buchanan
SOUTH AFRICA Nelson Mandela Metropole, Sol Platje and Buffalo City
LATIN AMERICA
CHILE, COSTA RICA and NICARAGUA
ASIA
SAUDI ARABIA Abha
GAZA and THE WEST BANK
IRAN Teheran
VIETNAM Hanoi
RUSSIA Gattjina
CHINA Luodian Town |
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Since a long time ago, Swedish planners – architects, engineers, economists and other
specialists – have made contributions regarding sustainable urban planning around the
globe. The Swedish Government has initiated an important part of the urban development
assistance to different parts of the world through its implementing agency Sida – Swedish
International Development Co-operation Agency.
Sida works with urban issues in Latin America, Africa and Asia for three main reasons:
alleviate poverty, promote economic growth and improve the environment. Urban development
is a new field for Swedish support, which previously focused most on rural areas. |
THE DEVELOPMENT of sustainable cities – an urgent challenge for the future
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CONCEPTS
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Visionary and Practical Concepts – Preliminary Examples of a system approach
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A central dimension of sustainable urban development is to promote a planning process based on an open, creative and constructive communication and cooperation between decision-makers, experts and citizens. It is very important that the participatory process has a broad arena aiming at cross-cutting strategies and projects regarding all these factors:
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INSTITUTIONAL NEEDS |
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CAPACITY BUILDING |
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PUBLIC AWARENESS AND EDUCATION |
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REGULATORY REVIEWS OF FRAMEWORK AND MEANS OF ENFORCEMENT |
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INFORMATION MANAGEMENT |
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PARTNERSHIPS |
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LONG-TERM INTEGRATED PLANNING |
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a planning process based on an OPEN and
CREATIVE DIALOGUE
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