Who are you to talk about urban revolution anyway?!

Ekhart Hahn, author of the project, already put forward the thesis in the 1980s that climate change cannot be tackled without cities. In times of increasingly severe impacts of climate change, which is now undisputed in scientific circles, his thesis has recently come increasingly into the focus of scientists* both nationally and internationally (cf. WGBU 2016: Moving Humanity). In 2012, for example, the then Secretary General of the UN, Ban Ki-Moon proclaimed before the UN General Assembly: “Our struggle for global sustainability will be won or lost in cities.”

However, Eco City Wünsdorf not only has a visionary author, but also a renowned network: the co-authors are leading ecologists, landscape planners and urban planners, as well as expanding an interdisciplinary competence team of migration activists*, artists*, business economists and city makers, who together have a holistic view of the Eco City’s sustainability, function and quality of life.

Furthermore, Eco City is a project for society as a whole and not an academic ivory tower; thus, it has been supported by a civil society association up to now and is also located there in the long term. As a social initiative, we act first and foremost as people and not as scientists; we have no profit motives and want to build the Eco City “bottom up” instead of “top down”, i.e. together with the people.