This event will launch the edited Volume, 'Transitioning to Sustainable Cities and Communities’, focusing on the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG11, featuring scholarly articles and interviews from leading experts working in architecture, urban design, planning, and landscape architecture. Contributions address the challenges and opportunities prompted by the the SDG11, and by extension, the climate crisis. The volume showcases a range of novel research, new spatial planning perspectives, and innovative design approaches that are contributing to making cities more inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable today. The book was co-edited by Hubert Klumpner, Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou, and Georgeen Theodore, and published by MDPI Publishers.

The launch will take place on Thursday 14 November in the Design in Dialogue (DiD) Lab, ONA, featuring a discussion with contributors and respondents, followed by an Apero.

The book features Aaron Betsky, Alejandro Restrepo-Montoya, Andres Lepik, Anna Heringer, Christian Werthmann, Chukwuemeka V. Chukwuemeka, Clara Rellensmann, David Michael Kretzer, Diego Ceresuela-Wiesmann, Fonna Forman, Gruia Bădescu, Manuel Herz, Martin Rauch, Melanie Fessel, Michael Walczak, Mitchell Joachim, Nicholas Gervasi, Peder Anker, Rahul Mehrotra, Stephanie Briers, Tanya Chandra, Teddy Cruz, Weijen Wang, Wint Tin Htut Latt, Yael Borofsky. As respondents we will have Mariam Issoufou, Nitin Bathla, and David Kostenwein.

For more information and to access the book, follow this link: www.mdpi.com/books/edition/8899-transitioning-to-sustainable-cities-and-communities