Sustainable Cities™

We aim to inspire and engage in conversations about sustainable cities with people, communities and organizations from all over the world. We collect and disseminate knowledge in order to help people and cities become more sustainable in future.

Combined park and water-collecting reservoir in Leidsche Reijn, Utrecht. Photo: Søren Smidt-Jensen

Sustainable Cities™: Best practice database

Sustainable Cities™ is a database providing knowledge and inspiration on the sustainable planning of cities and best practise cases from Danish and international cities. The database was launched at the 11th International Architecture Biennale in Venice in September 2008.

The aim of Sustainable Cities™ is to inspire politicians, architects, city planners, businesses, NGO’s and citizens all over the world to learn from each other and to collaborate with each other to transform the worlds less sustainable cities into the more sustainable cities of future.

Sustainable Cities™ collects and disseminates knowledge on cases and initiatives from cities all over the world. You will find inspiration in twelve categories; Energy, transport, water, food, waste, green, social, buildings, masterplans, education, economy and health.

Read the cases, dive into learning points, study the facts, learn from the experts and watch images and films. New cases and blogs are continuously posted on the site.

The development of the Sustainable Cities™ database was sponsored by Realdania. Today the operation of the database is financed by Danish Architecture Centre (DAC).

Where To find us

Vis stort kort

Sustainable Cities™
Dansk Arkitektur Center‎
Strandgade 27 B
1401 København K
Phone: +45 3257 1930
E-mail: ssj@dac.dk

Dig this

Case: New York City: Major water savings through pricing and incentives

In 1994 New York City also initiated water conservation, metering, leak detection, public education, subsidy programmes and the world’s largest toilet replacement program – which in some buildings reduced water use with up to 37 percent.

Learn more

Fact/Quote

…the world’s major environmental problems will only be solved through new ways of conceptualizing and running our cities, and the way we lead our urban lives […]

For this purpose, the most important thing is the collection and dissemination of best practices to assure that people in cities worldwide actually are informed about existing projects. That would be an indication that cities were becoming smart in the best sense of the world.
Herbert Girardet