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?
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How to create Sustainable Cities
By 2050 over 70% of people will live in Urban areas. Over 2/3 of the worlds carbon emissions come from these cities with the number only going up each year. The main goal is to create more renewable energy and less dirty energy, if we want to create true sustainability. Cities like Copenhagen Denmark are way ahead of most cities, with over 5 times the amount of bikes as cars. The idea of a sustainable city is going to require the cities to focus on the pedestrians, and not building around cars or dirty energy. In New York City where over 20 million people reside, the streets are jam packed with cars daily, and not friendly to pedestrians. Cities must be built around the people, and encourage people to use public transportation or bike/walk, instead of cars which produce mass amounts of dirty energy.