Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

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  • SDG Ziel 11: Nachhaltige Städte und Gemeinden
    People spread across a street scene in St. Petersburg, Russia
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    © Getty Images/Lisa-Blue

    Participation in the post-political context

    03.07.2024

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    Lecture

    In this Humboldt Cities Lecture Oleg Pachenkov talks about participation in the post-political context and provides a comparison between St. Petersburg and Berlin. Be there and join the discussion.

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  • SDG Ziel 11: Nachhaltige Städte und Gemeinden
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    © Getty Images/Nikada

    ,Radically Legal. Berlin Constitutes the Future‘

    08.05.2024

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    Lecture

    In this Humboldt Cities Lecture Joanna Kusiak presents her new book 'Radically Legal. Berlin Constitutes the Future'. Be there and join the discussion.

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  • SDG Ziel 11: Nachhaltige Städte und Gemeinden
    SDG Ziel 9: Industrie, Innovation und Infrastruktur
    Cyclist in rural Asia symbolizes sustainable transport in Indonesia
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    © Getty Images/rudi_suardi

    Is Sustainable Transport Knowledge Inclusive?

    25.04.2024

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    Virtual Coffee Break

    In this presentation, Sukma Larastiti will look at and analyze the problem of knowledge inclusivity in the transport sector based on the case of Indonesia. #byalumniforalumni

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  • SDG Ziel 11: Nachhaltige Städte und Gemeinden
    Old and extensively renovated buildings in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg
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    © Getty Images/golero

    The Commodification Gap - Gentrification and Public Policy

    03.04.2024

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    Lecture

    In this Humboldt Cities Lecture, Matthias Bernt presents a new institutionalist perspective on gentrification and public policy in London, Berlin and St. Petersburg.

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  • SDG Ziel 11: Nachhaltige Städte und Gemeinden
    Three-lane road that is used as a cycle lane in both directions. The road is lined with trees.
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    © Getty Images/Orbon Alija

    Studying sustainable urban planning in Germany

    Cities of the future: some 30 higher education institutions in Germany offer study programmes involving urban and regional planning, a few of them entirely in English. An overview.

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  • SDG Ziel 11: Nachhaltige Städte und Gemeinden
    Sustainable city: skyline of the city of Shenzhen in China in the background and large solar panel in the foreground
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    © GettyImages/bingfengwu

    Community ideas on sustainable cities

    This year’s annual alumni conference was the occasion for experts to mutually discuss how cities can be designed to be sustainable.  

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  • SDG Ziel 11: Nachhaltige Städte und Gemeinden
    A cyclist rides through a city park
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    © Getty Images/RyanJLane

    Ideas for sustainable cities

    Climate change, rapid urbanisation, infrastructural deficiencies and many other aspects are negatively impacting living conditions in our towns and cities. How can we make them more resilient and liveable? These were topics that Germany alumni addressed in the context of Community Challenge 2023. 

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  • SDG Ziel 11: Nachhaltige Städte und Gemeinden
    SDG Ziel 12: Nachhaltige/r Konsum und Produktion
    Participants of the Don't Litter Initiative in front of the university campus
    Participants of the Don't Litter Initiative© private
    Participants of the Don't Litter Initiative © private

    How to make a university a clean place

    Humboldtian Professor Uchendu has launched a challenging project: She wants the University of Nigeria in Nsukka to become one of the neatest places in Nigeria.

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  • Sheep on the roof of WERK3 and the Frauenkirche in Munich in the background
    Sheep on the roof of the WERK3 in Munich© URKERN 2022 Ivana Bilz
    Sheep on the roof of the WERK3 in Munich © URKERN 2022 Ivana Bilz

    SDG 11 - A rooftop meadow

    The nature project of Munich’s creative quarter ‘WERK3’ consists of a 2,500 square metres big meadow that is home to sheep, hares and chickens.

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“We can be the first generation that ends poverty and the last that avoids the worst effects of climate change.”

Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary General from 2007 to 2016

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