Contemporary sustainable cities: planning healthy, safe, quality and accessible places

Contemporary cites are changing at an increasingly rapid rate. It is not easy, therefore, to foretell what they will be like even a short time from now, such as in five or ten years (Banerjee, Loukaitou-Sideris, 2011; Carmona, Tiesdell, Heath, Oc, 2010; Carmona, 2014; Friedmann, 2010). Accordingly, to achieve sustainable cities today require considering many topics at the same time. In the following, some will be illustrated, including health, safety, quality and accessibility in places and two emblematic examples in Vancouver and Madrid. Since many years, these two cities are working to improve livability connected to health and safety, to achieve both quality and sustainable places and a slow regeneration (Sepe, 2019) which represents one of the main challenges of the future. In line with these concepts, the new needs in teaching will be explored in the conclusions.