This recent HBF publication focuses on the role of cities in solving the climate crisis and presents models of sustainable architecture and urban planning.

Visions of how cities should be built or transformed reflect the diversity of views and perspectives on how people will and should live in cities, since planning in any form always also pursues normative goals. Architecture and urban planning reflect the designs that urban society makes of itself and the conflicts of interest related to the use of cities. Problems of the present tend to concentrate in urban centers, as do experimental solutions to those problems. The built environment, its design and its redesign are themselves becoming objects of the debate over the city of the future. Urban Futures pursues two corresponding ideas: The first objective is to deepen the transnational dialog over the role of cities in solving the climate crisis. The second objective is to collect visions and models of sustainable architecture and urban planning and present them to a broader public.

See also:

Report: Cities in a post-2012
www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/300608

Report: Report on human settlements
www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/287543

Report: Rethinking transport & climate
www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/295872

Report: State of the world's cities
www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/268827

Report: A city-wide approach
www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/300981

Report: Eco2 cities
www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/279818

Report: Climate agenda for Delh
www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/275919