Humanity on the move: Unlocking the transformative power of cities
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title={Humanity on the move: Unlocking the transformative power of cities},
author={Frauke Kraas and Claus Leggewie and Peter Lemke and Ellen Matthies and Dirk Messner and Nebojsa Nakicenovic and Hans Joachim Schellnhuber and Sabine Schlacke and Uwe Schneidewind and Clara Brandi and Carsten Butsch and Sebastian Busch and Frederic Hanusch and Ruediger Haum and Melanie Jaeger-Erben and Maximilian K{\"o}ster and Mareike Kroll and Carsten J. Loose and Astrid Ley and Dirk Martens and Inge Paulini and Benno Pilardeaux and Teresa Schl{\"u}ter and G. Sch{\"o}neberg and Astrid Schulz and Anna Schwachula and Birgit Soete and B. Stephan and Jeffrey Sutter and Kira Vinke and Matthias Wanner},
year={2016}
}The momentum of urbanization and its impacts are so massive that we must face up to this trend. In view of the existing cognitive, technical, economic and institutional path dependencies, a policy of business as usual – i.e. an unstructured, quasi-automatic urbanization – would lead to a non-sustainable ‘world cities society’. Only if cities and urban societies are sufficiently empowered can they make use of the opportunities for sustainability and successfully follow the urban transformation…
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