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Empowering cities to act in pursuit of the common good
On 30 November 2020, the ministers responsible for urban development in Europe adopted the “New Leipzig Charter. The transformative power of cities for the common good“. It provides a strategic framework for integrated and sustainable urban development for the common good and identifies central and current challenges such as climate change, social cohesion and digitalisation. It defines and mentions principles, fields of action and recommendations for a goal-oriented steering of municipal transformation.The documentation provides an insight into the development process of the New Leipzig Charter, national and Europe-wide dialogues and discourses as well as scientific research, the results of which have been incorporated into the conception of the document.
Project management
Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development
Division RS 5 “Digital Cities, Risk Prevention and Transportation“
Eva Schweitzer (
eva.schweitzer@bbr.bund.de
)
Management in the Federal Ministry
Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community (BMI)
Division SW I 1 “Urban Development Policy“
Tilmann Buchholz
Research contractor and Authors
German Association for Housing Urban and Spatial Development (DV), Berlin
Heike Mages
Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU), Cottbus
Silke Weidner
This publication is also available in German language:
Die Neue Leipzig-Charta: Entstehungsprozess und Ergebnis