Making urban areas more sustainable by transferring scientific results into the building, shaping, and governance of cities is a complicated process which involves – amongst other dimensions – science, local governance, and regulatory processes. There are non-linear interactions within each of these three dimensions which are influenced and enhanced by interactions between the three dimensions. After a short analysis of different sustainability concepts, this conceptual paper considers each of the three dimensions and finally tries to find some suggestions as to how these dimensions could interact more smoothly also considering Triple Helix theory. One basic suggestion is that without updating laws, norms, and standards, urban administrations will often not be able to integrate new scientific findings into procedures for more sustainable cities. That is, all three dimensions need to be aligned in the process of building sustainable cities.

通过将科学成果转化为城市建设、塑造和治理来使城市地区更具可持续性是一个复杂的过程，其中涉及科学、地方治理和监管流程等方面。这三个维度中的每一个都存在非线性相互作用，这三个维度之间的相互作用会影响和增强这些相互作用。在对不同的可持续性概念进行简短分析后，本概念性论文考虑了三个维度中的每一个维度，并最终尝试就这些维度如何更顺畅地相互作用以及考虑三螺旋理论找到一些建议。一项基本建议是，如果不更新法律、规范和标准，城市管理部门往往无法将新的科学发现整合到更具可持续性城市的程序中。