Make Cities and Human Settlements Inclusive, Safe, Resilient, and Sustainable

The world’s population is constantly increasing. To accommodate everyone, we need to build modern, sustainable cities. For all of us to survive and prosper, we need new, intelligent urban planning that creates safe, affordable and resilient cities with green and culturally inspiring living conditions.

The Indicator

Everyone can help to make sure that we meet the Global Goals. Use these targets to create action to make cities and communities sustainable.

1. Inclusive and Sustainable Urbanization
2. Reduce the Adverse Effects of Natural Disasters
3. Provide Access to Safe and Inclusive Green and Public Spaces
4. Protect the World’s Cultural and Natural Heritage
5. Reduce the Environmental Impact of Cities
6. Implement Policies for Inclusion, Resource Efficiency and Disaster Risk Reduction

Sustainable cities are creating safe spaces for its inhabitants through various means, such as:

• Solutions to decrease urban sprawl, by seeking new ways of allowing people to live closer to the workspace. Since the workplace tends to be in the city, downtown, or urban center, they are seeking a way to increase density by changing the antiquated attitudes many suburbanites have towards inner-city areas. One of the new ways to achieve this is by solutions worked out by the Smart Growth Movement.
• Educating residents of cities about the importance and positive impacts of living in a more sustainable city. This is to boost the initiative to have sustainable developments and push people to live in a more sustainable and environmentally-friendly way.
• Policy and planning changes to meet the unmet demands for urban services (water, energy, transport).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_city

https://www.globalgoals.org/goals/11-sustainable-cities-and-communities/