Covering the global outlook of the challenges facing cities today, this book advocates for the creation of a strategic global UrbanPedia and sheds light on exemplary world strategic partnerships on cities.

This book can be seen as the third part of an unofficial trilogy on Sustainable Cities of the Future with the author's previous books 'Sustainable Development, Energy and the City' and 'Sustainable Cities for the third millennium: The Odyssey of urban excellence', both prefaced by Prof. Sir Peter Hall. All three books follow the evolving forefront of innovations towards Sustainable Cities. They collectively try to respond to the questions: What future cities wish to build (with their scarcities and capacities) on a finite planet? What do-they do to achieve this? How do-they contribute to redesign the world? The third book adopts, first and foremost, a strategic foresight approach including a scan of the future trends, tensions and risks in a more uncertain world, the possible and preferable futures, emerging policy issues, such as intergenerational cities or cities welcoming the immigrants and their impact on sustainable development, the Rio+20 prospects and the effects of the protracted crisis, efforts by world interconnected cities, including a case-study on Bangkok, a laboratory of urban change, and examples of frugal and resilient urban policies.

Suggests that citizenship and innovation are the most important elements for the cities to lead the civilisation of sustainability Advocates for the creation of a strategic global UrbanPedia and sheds light on exemplary world strategic partnerships on cities Covers the global outlook of the challenges facing cities today

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Dr Voula MEGA graduated from the National Technical University, of Athens, the French Institute of Geodesy and the French Institute of Urban Planning where she received her DEA and PhD degree in urban and regional planning and policy. Her postdoctoral studies include research on regional policy at the Oxford Brooks University and Environmental Economics and Policy Analysis at Harvard University. In 2016, she returned to the Harvard Kennedy School of Government for a leadership excellence programme. Her research and publications address the scientific foundations, values, culture and innovations for sustainable development policies and the cities of the future. She believes that Science and the Arts are free and can herald a better world and strategic foresight and visions for desired futures can far extend the limits of the possible. Citizen of the world and passionate European, she is pursuing an international career, starting as Special Adviser to the Greek Government and held important positions in various European and International organisations. She has been Research Manager at the European Foundation for Living and Working Conditions, an EU agency in Dublin, and worked as international expert on Sustainable Development at the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris. In 2001, she joined the European Commission in Brussels and works as senior policy analyst at the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation. Her Academic activities include Invited Master Lectures at the University of California at Berkeley, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Columbia University, Prince of Wales Institute of Architecture, Institut Français d'Architecture, the European University of the Environment, University College of London, Catalan Institute of Technology, and the Universities of Athens, Bologna, Trieste and Parma. She has been Associate Professor at the School of Public Administration, Athens. She published extensively with the European Union, the UN, UNESCO, OECD and international publishers, notably Springer, in Greek, English, French, Spanish and Italian. She also published three poetry collections and exhibited drawings, watercolours and photographs. An exhibition at the European Parliament focused on her artistic work on European cities.

Inhalt

Insights from the Future: Trends, Risks and Opportunities.- Human Ecosystems in a resource scarce World.- Cities Ahead of the Energy Transition.- Reinventing Smart, Green and Inclusive Mobility in Cities.- Pioneer Cities in the Creative Sustainable Economy.- Intergenerational Cities Embracing Diversity and Social Justice.- Cities of Education, Knowledge and Innovation, Culture and the Arts.- Sustainable Regeneration and Enlightenment.- The Civic Bond: Cities for and With Citizens.- Co-designing Fair Cities for the Next Generations.- European Cities and Interconnected World Experiences.- Index.