Memorandum "Urban Resilience - Pathways to a Robust, Adaptive, and Sustainable City"

Since spring 2020, the Corona pandemic and its consequences have fundamentally changed everyday life. Cities and municipalities in particular have faced and continue to face major challenges in coping with the crisis.

The German Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Housing reacted quickly and, in the fall of 2020, commissioned an expert advisory board to identify ways to make cities and communities sustainable and resilient. Its members included Prof. Steffan Rettich of the Department of Urban Planning at the University of Kassel. The National Urban Development Policy with its well-established structures was the appropriate platform to accompany this process.

In an intensive and interdisciplinary working process, a memorandum on urban resilience was developed. The memorandum "Urban Resilience - Pathways to a Robust, Adaptive and Sustainable City" formulates recommendations for action and conclusions for urban development. With the adoption of the memorandum at the federal congress, the task now is to fill the memorandum with life in the coming months and implement it in the cities and communities on the ground.

Here you can download the memorandum:

Memorandum urban resilience  (PDF, 2MB, file is barrier-free/barrier-free)