Tulbure, IldikoIldikoTulbure2018-10-222018-10-222018L:1843-5831 (online); 2457-837110.21698/simi.2018.fp23http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1256International Symposium "The Environment and the Industry", 20-21 September, 2018, Bucharest, Romania, pp. 186-194After the Conference for Environment in Stockholm in 1972 and after the release in the same year of the first report to the Club of Rome, „The Limits to Growth“, was understood that the wish of increasing our life quality by using new technological applications could have beside desired effects, also undesired ones. Worldwide began debates on scientific, political and social levels in order to find solutions for these problems. The concept of sustainable development, defined for the first time 1987 in the Brundtland Report, largely discussed 1992 during the so-called “Rio”- Conference as well as 2012 during the “Rio+20”- Conference, was worldwide accepted as a possible solution for the global complex ecological, economic and social problems. On a local level best strategies have to be found for developing sustainable cities as well as most appropriate assessment terms. Newly debated strategies for sustainable urban development have at their base the concept of "Decoupling” firstly developed 2013 in the Club of Rome. Using new transportation possibilities, other than cars as well as rehabilitating residential urban buildings and constructing green buildings are as well in the discussions. These aspects are related to mindset changes and to a new type of education of the young generation, a socalled Holistic Education for Sustainable Development. Presently it is still not very clear what a sustainable city should be and what components should be included, getting a ”general methodology” for sustainable cities represents a big progress in this field.DecouplingDynamic assessment methodsGeneral methodologyLocal sustainabilityMindset changesSymposium Proceedings