Urban Innovation: To Boldly Go Where No Cities Have Gone Before – Medium sized cities and towns as a major arena of global urbanisation

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Not only is the world’s population constantly growing, many cities around the globe are also subject to permanent growth, even in countries and regions with constant or even shrinking population numbers. Global urbanisation is not only creating new challenges in terms of infrastructure, mobility, housing and spatial planning, but especially in climate mitigation and adaptation, in technological change – especially digitisation, in resilience towards multiple natural and man-made challenges and in inclusion and accessibility to improve the quality of life even under adverse conditions. In world’s megacities, such challenges have to be tackled on a large scale – with all the technical, organisational, administrative hurdles that have to be dealt with. What about medium-sized and smaller cities? Can they be faster, more flexible, more efficient than the “big tankers” when it comes to innovations? Can they pave the way to a livable global future? Can they take us to solutions that help us to boldly go where no cities have gone before, especially when it comes to the criteria of sustainability, resilience and especially quality of life for the whole society? Can solutions developed on a smaller scale be upscaled to metropolises on the one hand and even trickle down to functional urban regions, small cities and rural places? Can measures be easily scaled up and down or do they require completely different approaches?

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Manfred Schrenk

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