Sustainable Cities
How to Live More Smart
By: Jalen Brown

What are Sustainable Cities?

• A sustainable community is one that is economically, environmentally, and socially healthy and resilient.
• Examples: Copenhagen Denmark, Stockholm Sweden, Singapore, and San Francisco
• Sustainability is the ability to be maintained at a certain balance with the environment

How is this achieved?

• In San Francisco the city emphazies the use of public transport with its hybrid electic buses that have cut the cities carbon emissions by half
• The local government provides residents with high efficiencywater heads, and other water saving devices that have allowed residents of the city to only use 49 gallons of water compared to the national averaged of 80-100 gallons.

Denmark super bicycle highways

Government v. Business

• Often times in the cities which have implemented environmental polices, they were government funded mostly locally
• In the U.S., there is the question of government encroachment and letting the free market to do its thing because green innitives are often hindered because businesses are in it to make a profit

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Citations

• Djoulakian, H. (2015, July 06). The Top 5 Reasons Why San Francisco is California's Sustainable City. Retrieved from https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/california/articles/top-5-ways...
• Government. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.learningsustainability.com/government.html

Citations cont.

• Living in a sustainable laboratory. (2015, January). Geographical, 87(1), 12+. Retrieved from https://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A400528458/SCIC?u=lee19782&sid=SCIC&xid...
• Sustainable Cities: From a Vision to Reality. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.wri.org/blog/2014/02/sustainable-cities-vision-reality