“Cities and human settlements are places we live, share, create, build and dream together. Let us use good design to make them sustainable, inclusive and prosperous
for all.” Ban Ki-moon
DEsigned to Live Together
The UN proposes five ways how cities can be designed for all to live together
- Planned not only to generate jobs and opportunities, but also help build socially integrated, livable, open neighborhoods.
- Planning residential areas with different possibilities in terms of typology and price enables residents from different backgrounds and income levels to live together.
- Designing through participative processes helps people come together around shared goals and visions, and promotes everyone’s equal access to services, jobs and opportunities.
- Designing compact, denser cities reduces the over exploitation of natural resources, and facilitates common living by enabling equal access to land, food and water for all.
- Designing public spaces, parks, playgrounds, streets with pedestrian space and commercial activities help create a vibrant public life for all residents.
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http://www.un.org/en/events/citiesday/citiestogether.shtml
http://www.un.org/en/events/citiesday/2015/sgmessage.shtml
http://urbanoctober.org/index.asp
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/focussdgs.html
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/geld/integration-pariser-banlieues-wie-man-es-nicht-machen-sollte-1.347616