Leipzig Charter on Sustainable European Cities results from the role of the cities as holders of social progress and economic growth and thereby recall the urgency of achieving social balance, inside the cities as well as between different cities, of conservation of cultural diversity and achieving high quality in the field of urban study, architecture and environment. Therefore, the Leipzig Charter promotes a comprehensive and sustainable urban development, by which it does not mark only legal balance between economic and environmental development, but also structural and spatial quality of cities.
In fact, a comprehensive policy of urban development is a process where spatial, sector and time aspects of key areas of urban policy need to be harmonised, and various economic actors, institutions, interest groups, laymen and expert circles and different decision-making levels need to be included. Within a comprehensive policy of urban development, the document emphasizes the following strategies for action: creating and providing a high quality of public spaces, modernizing infrastructural networks and improving energy efficiency, and active policy of innovations and education. A comprehensive policy of urban development also includes strategic measures for endangered urban areas that need a special attention in the situation of globalisation and economic and social structural changes. Implementation of strategies to improve urban environment, to reinforce local economy and local policy of labour market, active policy of education and training of children and young people and to encourage efficient and affordable public transport, are the key strategies of action in endangered urban areas, reffered to in the Leipzig Charter.
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