 Thank you for the introduction and I'll be speaking to you about the city of Leipzig, why the city of Leipzig we are after all in Africa and we've been hearing and I've been learning many things about challenges of African cities that we might not have but I do believe there's some things to tell. First of all Leipzig is the sister city of Addis and we have a very active partnership program going on with Addis and there's been a long tradition of people from Ethiopia coming to study in Leipzig also from the time of East Germany so and I believe Leipzig has had a unique transitionary path over the last 30 years and I'd like to take you on that trip with you. So I think I have some slides. Where do I press? Here we go. So Leipzig's inclusive growth model and I'd like to take you on basically three levels of what we'd call inclusivity is on first of all the planning process, secondly inclusive interventions in space and thirdly inclusive policies towards individuals. And Leipzig has, as I titled it, from decline to growth and you see some of the pictures from the late 80s at the end of what was then East Germany. You see in the middle the demolition of about 50,000 housing units that we undertook in the 90s and this is where you can find us in the heart of Europe. We are a city of now 590,000 people. We are the fastest, relatively fastest growing city in Germany about 10 to 15,000 people a year. We were at the time of East Germany the window to the world twice per year with a trade fair and that is something I think that idea of a liberal openness and to the world which is deeply ingrained in the city's identity. Things you might take away. We have a strong industrial history. We are the origin of the peaceful revolution of 1989. We're also the origin of many music and cultural contributions from Bach to Mendelssohn and we are also proud to be the location of the Leipzig Charter of the integrated and sustainable European city. The business logos we put up there that is the renaissance, the renaissance of the city after it has lost 100,000 manufacturing jobs in the early 1990s. This is now from our propaganda department. Now I show you how Georg Schwarzstreet looked in 2010 and of course with a different angle of the photographer how it looks in 2015. That is of course to drive home the point that we were somehow successful in intervening in areas but not intervening in the whole area but focusing on corners and focusing on arteries of these neighborhoods. This is the general sort of moot curve of Leipzig from the relaunch of East Germany in the early 90s then to a gradual decline, a almost depression type around the turn of the century and now to a sustained urban growth path along the way and this is to be mentioned that all along that line Leipzig is one of the poorest cities in Germany. This is on the address partnership you can then look that up later once everything is online. Integrated urban development as our first line of inclusivity. As I mentioned the Leipzig charter from 2007 as our founding document of how we want to also conduct city planning within our city. This is the latest planning process of our integrated urban development concept. You see lots of workshops, lots of forums, lots of participatory forums but what is most important in the end it was approved by city council because we've had many planning processes before. They were very participatory and very bottom up and very ingenious but in the end they didn't get traction with local political decision makers. So this one was approved and I think this is where planning in all its ingenuity needs to come in the end to political confirmation. This was from the opening ceremony where we focused on the main topics countering the city, equality of chances, integration, mobility and also the question of density and urban space. These were some of the formats you see on the bottom right. We engaged the Leipzig Lego Club to build some of the scenarios that we were discussing. We held citizen forums. We also used some of our techniques of randomized invitations to citizens to not only get the usual suspects who would show up at these meetings but also to oversample, for example, young women in these invitations in order to have in the end a balance to the natural presence of old men with a lot of time who would voice their opinions on city matters. This is the result. Leipzig grows sustainably. That's sort of our strategy, ROSE as we try to call it which we try to now push down the throat of every city service that we can get a hold of. And of course it defines many strategy pieces that are circled around the central target of Leipzig grows inclusively. Social inclusion as part of the sector concepts that is sort of our heat map of social demand across the city. The red areas of course are the ones where we have to intervene stronger. Coming to the second line of inclusivity is inclusive intervention in space. These are mainly interventions that took place in the time of decline of the population at the time when Leipzig lost 100,000 inhabitants within 10 years to migration to West Germany, to declining birth rate and to migration to the suburbs and found itself with a decrepit housing stock at the time with a legacy of a socialist system with no equity capital and low ownership rates in the population and as I said with urban flight from the city between 95 and 2005. Now what the city did at the time was to say we need to maintain certain areas where we have what we called a guardian house at the corner of an important street sign, of an important street intersection where we would pay a non-profit to be part and a sort of renting that house out to students and to artists and basically to signify to the residents this neighbourhood is not abandoned. We still believe in you, but we have a temporary usage at the corner. Second intervention green spaces. We've used the demolition of also factories and infrastructure to invest into green spaces with a lot of support from the European Union and the federal government that needs to be acknowledged. But investing in these green spaces was also a part to make the city more attractive. We also allowed and what I would call breaking with zoning orthodoxy we allowed individual home building in parts of the city where you would normally build multi-story homes and that in fact created a term called Leipziger Freiheit, the Leipzig Freedom. So basically it was the idea if you wanted a townhouse in the centre of a city you could come to Leipzig something you couldn't finance in Hamburg or in Munich. And so that and also the marketing campaign where we showed students living in large flats that sort of created the image that there is and the true image that there is a lot of opportunity in Leipzig and you can still find an empty factory floor if you want to set up a gallery club or whatever. But of course our building inspectors will come after you once you become too successful so I cannot guarantee forever. That is of course the emerging challenge, affordability. We have the issue of what is perceived as gentrification. We have also violent protests against gentrification that is not to be deluded. It was mentioned that there is also urban space is a space for contests and is a space for protests. We do have sometimes opponents of gentrification setting fire to our construction vehicles for school building that is of course the wrong type of protests but of course it's a debate that is to be had and we like to frame it in a more constructive manner of actually promoting social housing also through new federal payments on social housing and to enable the network of self-users and also to bring that to new areas of the city. This is something we need to work on very hard also in the light of German sector regulations not so much building regulations but sectoral regulations be they on kindergartens or school grounds or parking in fact to overlay multi-uses in a denser city so take away from that it's not just the building code it's also the sector laws from the different usage points. Well I can come to the last point in my last 30 seconds which is the comprehensive social policy and you do see the little playmobil person in a wheelchair that's sort of what we try to promote with our schools that we have access for people with different disabilities but also from social backgrounds as I mentioned Leipzig is a relatively poor city it has a number of social problems although we have declining unemployment and declining... so now my finger was off here sorry I'm out of time we need to build more schools this is how we're organized this is the general discussion where my former World Bank identity as a social protection person comes in we can discuss more of that later and the road ahead will bring these challenges to our city and we are confident that we can counter them and we can master them in a spirit of inclusion and participation as we've done over the last 30 years I look forward to the dialogue and I would like to thank everyone for the conference it was one of the most fruitful and rich experiences I've had in my three years as a mayor so thank you all for that