Beautiful
City
Healthy City
Green City
Creative
City
Smart City
Socialist
City
Shrinking
City
Compact
City
Ludic City
Slow City
(Citta Slow)
Aeropolis
City
Intercultural
City
Global City
Unsettling
City
Unruly City
Whats
yours?
City
Compact
city
Shrinking
Urban
City
Sustainable
Development
Global City
Home to major stock exchanges and
indexes
Influential in international political affairs
Home to world-renowned cultural
institutions
Service a major media hub
Large mass transit networks
Home to a large international airport
Having a prominent skyline
How to measure?
Chicago Council on Global Affairs have tried to
make a Global Cities Index using these
criteria below:
Business Activity
Human Capital
Information Exchange
Cultural Experience
Political Engagement
Why?
City World
Unsettling Cities
Unruly Cities?
Compact City
It is based on an efficient
public transport system and
has an ur-ban layout which
according to its advocates
encourages
walking and
cycling, low energy
consumption and reduced
pollu- tion. (Williams 2000,
cited in Dempsey 2010).
or
somehow...
Shrinking City :
Smart Growth in
reverse
A large number of fast shrinking cities
belong to an environmental network,
indicating policy initiatives in this area.
Members tend to be the cities of
historical and architectural importance,
which have seen population decline for
around a generation
So
What is the
GOAL of all
these
cities?
Through what
form?
Compactness
2.
Sustainable Transport
3.
Density
4.
5.
Diversity
6.
7.
Greening
Our future
is in our
Cities