Are cities currently more or less sustainable than rural areas? There are many factors that need to be considered in this question, and there may not be one deffinitive answer, however in thinking about how cities should look in the future, we need to figure out what exactly we need to change now. The basic idea and deffinition of a city is that many people would be living close together and in smaller areas. Condensing the areas that are inhabited by people leaves more space for wild life and the enviornment to flourish, this alone would reduce the impact humans have on the enviornment. However, cities are also  huge carbon emitters, and resorce dumps. Factories belch out smoke, trafic flows day and night, and neon signs blaze, blocking out the night sky. Where is the balence point? At what point does the benifits of leaving space for nature to flurish out weigh the pollution caused by cities. Is it possible to create a perfectly sustainable city, in wich the positives vastly outweigh the disastorous consequenses on the enviornment? The question we must ask is; “ how do we achieve this ideal city?”.