Sustainable Cities

A sustainable city aims to meet its residents' needs, housing, transportation, energy, water, for the long term without depleting the resources or degrading the environment future residents will depend on, through strategies like efficient public transit, green building design, renewable energy use, and compact development that reduces sprawl. Unlike Environmental Change and Sustainability's broader look at sustainable development as a global framework, this topic focuses specifically on the tools and tradeoffs cities themselves use to become more sustainable, like balancing density against livability or transit investment against cost.

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