Unpacking Metropolitan Governance for Sustainable Development

Urbanization is a megatrend which will significantly shape the economic, political and social transformation of societies and their spatial impacts. It is estimated that up to 70% of the global population will be living in cities by 2050. Future urban growth will almost exclusively take place in developing countries. Thereby, spatial and functional interrelations between cities, settlements and their surrounding areas are increasing and the metropolitan scale is gaining more and more relevance for integrated urban and city-regional planning, financing and implementation. The Sector Project “Sustainable Development of Metropolitan Regions”, implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), develops action-oriented advisory services on the role of metropolitan regions as drivers for sustainable development. Within this approach, the Sector Project operates in four focus areas to address the diverse social, economic and ecologic challenges in urban agglomerations.

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