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Research network for interdisciplinary urban studies

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Global Urban and city development trends A.D. 2025

The City+2025@Oxford conference gave many insights into the themes and topics that are relevant for city and urban development in the coming centuries, especially considering polycrisis (e.g., geopolitical tensions and climate change) are now becoming more influential. Connecting the West and the Eastern world of our planet, connecting old knowledge of different cultures too, can become remarkably strong knowledge of importance for making the step to resilience. The central conclusion of the presentations, as analysed, is: resilience can be found in old knowledge and in complex analyses of new knowledge as long as we combine these to make cities and the citizens stronger. 

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