Introduction Marius Albiez, Gerhard Banse, Kenyon C. Lindeman, Alexandra Quint1 FRAMEWORK
The Human in the City of the FutureThe Challenge of Shaping Future Urban Contexts
Armin Grunwald1 The Human and the City in Historical Terms
2 Shaping the Urban Future Instead of Predicting It
3 Challenges and Pathways to Shaping Urban Futures – Open Questions
4 Conclusion
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Current Challenges of Sustainable Urban Development Kerstin Gothe1 The Context of this Article
2 Actual Trends with Influence on the Development of Cities
2.1 The Renaissance of the Urban Lifestyle, or Re-Urbanisation
2.2 The Decline of Car Traffic, Multimodality
3 Thinking about the Role of the ″Sharing City″ or ″Interactive City″
4 Practice of Sharing City-Projects
5 Discussion of the Sharing City concept in Seoul
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Sustainability Assessment Systems for New and Existing Neighbourhoods Thomas Lützkendorf, Maria Balouktsi1 Starting Points
1.1 New and Existing Neighbourhoods as the Object of Assessment – Barriers
1.2 Existing Solutions and Experiences in Germany
2 The Overall Context
3 Review of Sustainability Assessment Systems
3.1 Certification Systems and Decision Support Tools – an Overview
3.2 Methodology for the Comparative Analysis
3.3 Results of the Comparative Analysis of the Selected Tools and Systems
3.4 Recommendations
4 Integration into Overall Concepts and Developments
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2 RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES
″District Future – Urban Lab″A Real Urban Transition Lab
Oliver Parodi, Marius Albiez, Sarah Meyer-Soylu, Colette Waitz1 An Initial Overview
2 The Context: Cities as Necessary Places of Sustainable Development
3 District Future – Urban Lab: Main Characteristics
4 Project Objectives
5 The Project Area
6 District Future as Urban Transition Lab
7 Topics
8 Public Presence
9 Resilience and Transformation
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Local Citizen Participation in the European Context Albert Geiger1 ″We are they and they are we!″
2 Processes of Change
3 Thematic Links
4 European Exchange of Experience
The Sustainable City in RomaniaFrom Vision to Reality
Ildiko Tulbure1 The Concept of Sustainable Development and its Operationalisation
2 Urban Sustainability – Methodological Aspects
3 The Concept of Decoupling
4 Sustainable Cities in Romania: Examples
5 Sustainable Development Strategy of the Romanian Region Alba
6 Conclusions
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Peri-Urban Villages of Bangalore, IndiaReclaiming the Commons to Cope with Climate Stress and Unsustainable Resource Utilization Systems
Appakuttan Damodaran, Tanushree Haldar1 Backdrop
2 Trajectory of the Tragedy of Commons in Recent Years
3 Adaptation Measures
4 Enhancing Adaptation Capabilities in the Village
5 The Blueprint for Reclaiming the Commons
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3 OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES FOR SUSTAINABLE CITIES
Co-housingAbundant Potential for Sustainable Housing and Neighbourhood Development
Anja Szypulski1 Introduction
2 Development of Co-housing Projects in Germany
3 Enhanced Qualities of Housing are Required – Co-housing Projects Provide Answers to Current Questions
3.1 Housing Suitable for the Elderly
3.2 Provision of Affordable Housing
3.3 Development of Neighbourhoods
4 Barriers and Their Implications for Housing Policies
4.1 Support by Local Authorities
4.2 Funding
4.3 Access to Land
5 Conclusion
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Gender & DiversityIssues and Challenges for the ″Just City″
Sandra Huning1 Introduction
2 From Feminist Interventions to Gender Mainstreaming in Urban Development
3 Managing Diversity in Urban Development
4 The Just City and Just Diversity
5 The Role of Participation
6 Conclusion
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eco-com.60+: Communal Living for the ElderlyEcological, Social and Economical Aspects
Freya Brandl1 Introduction
2 Method
2.1 Heating Load of Selected Objects
2.2 Estimation of City-wide Energy Saving Potential
3 Results
3.1 Heating Loads of the Selected Buildings
3.2 Estimated City-level Heating Load Reduction
4 Discussion
4.1 Heating Load
4.2 Additional Considerations
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4 SUSTAINABLE UNIVERSITIES
Making the Campus SustainableThe Example of the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt
Ingrid Hemmer, Péter Bagoly-Simó1 Introduction
2 Universities and Their Contribution to Sustainable Development
3 The Catholic University Eichstaett-Ingolstadt: Becoming a More Sustainable University
4 Awareness Level and Acceptance of the New Overall Concept
4.1 Methods and Sample
4.2 Results
4.3 Discussion
5 The Realization of the Overall Concept from 2012 to 2014
6 Networks and Cooperation
6.1 The International and National Scale
6.2 The Regional and Local Scale
7 Factors Promoting Implementation and Challenges
8 Prospects
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Applied Sustainability Education with a Systems Science Emphasis at a STEM University Kenyon C. Lindeman1 Introduction
2 Academic Sustainability
2.1 Sustainability Programs
2.2 Systems Science Education for Sustainability
3 Campus and Community Sustainability
4 Discussion
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