Here's your chance not just to be the mayor, but the original city planner as well! Imagine a medium sized city that would be developed with modern, low carbon transportation in mind, and other strategies to reduce the average citizens' carbon footprints.
What would that city look like? Would that make you more likely to want to live there?

If I were to recreate my own city I will absolutely make sure the city is 90% sustainable. You would wonder why 90% and not 100%, well if I can make it 100% sustainable that would be amazing but there are times we don't have a choice or even forgets. In my medium sized city car would be illegal, so you would use the bus, walk, bike, or run. You would think, so we can't go on car trips or go on planes, well yes you can, that's the reason I said it would only be 90%. Sometimes you just need to give yourself a break. Now you ask, how about our homes there must be lots we can't do, well I'm not that mean. When your home there will be solar panels on every house so the electricity would come from there but of course there will be emergency electricity boxes at home when you really need it. That is a simple tour of my medium-sized city, but there is a lot more! Feel free to add on to my sustainable city. Some examples can be.....
- when your shopping what do you use to replace plastic bags
-During a menstrual cycle, what can you use that is more sustainable
-etc.

My idea of medium-sized city is a place which gathers culture, sustainable development and modernity. Imagine your city with less noises, less smell of car's exhaust pipe and your culture in perfect harmony with news technologies and the environment.
I live in a tropical country, Tahiti, located in French Polynesia at 8 hours by plane of USA. My country is known to it nature, it landscapes, and it islands all around. Our culture is very close by the nature, we use the nature to feed the population, to build our homes, to get dressed but also to be keep in touch with her.
Due to our location, we detect less effects of capitalism, but we are in danger with the rising water levels and the global warming which destroy corals are severals animals of the sea.
I think that we need to use different way to reduce our footprints and to modernize healthily our country with the development of means of transports, protect and control the marine ressources against some industries ( domains of fish, pearls, etc…). Furthermore, we need to develop our financial system to promote the sustainable activities against the carbonate activities.
In the domain of tourism, we have an hotel which operate with the energy given by the nature.
Indeed, we have to develop the green tourism, eco-responsible gestures and sustainable development.

I agree with MrGlobalWarming987 on the first part of his argument ( his ideal city would be great ) .
However, living in French Polynesia too , i disagree on the effects of capitalism. I think that we do feel the capitalist society . People in Tahiti mostly buy more than they need . I feel like their relationship with mother nature isn't quite the same as before as we witness trash on the beach or on the side of the road.
But I hope that it will turnover and that people are going to wake up.

I also totally agree with Situ.M on his ideal sustainable town . We can't live yet with a 100% sustainable city.

I agree with the sentiment of this sustainable city. The ideas of 90% sustainability and the use of solar panels in everyone's home is an interesting concept. However even though it is only a hypothetical I feel like achieving this city would not happen as there are too many assumptions made on people's preference or own ideas. For example I find it hard to believe that people would willingly give up all of these types of transportation without an even more accessible alternative.

I agree that to start curving the emissions humans put into the atmosphere, we need to change how we create energy. I also agree with Tanuj Jujaray's argument that people will not willingly give up an abundant method of transportation for something that is way more expensive. Maybe to combat this, we could invent a magnetically levitating and electric skytrain, or maybe a buss that has solar panels on its roof, maybe even more abundant electric or hybrid cars for affordable prices. There are many possibilities to solve this problem, but we actually have to do them rather then just say that we will.