Sustainable City
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A sustainable city refers to a city designed and/or shaped with considerations for social, natural economic, environmental sustainability; also called eco-city, or green city, especially one assessed to score high on associated measures as those roughly described here
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Transport infrastructure
- London car cumulative CO2eq emissions and energy demand under different policies
- Large bike-lines throughout the city
- Absence of curbsides in the bike lanes
- Concept of Modal share could be applied to cities
Car-free zones and days
Buildings
- Required weatherproof bicycle storage in or near apartment buildings
- Radiative cooling, for example via very white roofs
- Solar panels on buildings like apartment complexes, especially on top of them
Other infrastructure & services
- Especially important in coastal areas where these are often missing
Air quality
- An outdated non-live map of one type of air pollution in Europe in 2005
Water quality
- PFAS in U.S. waters
- Pharmaceutical pollution concentrations in the world's rivers
Other technology
- Bike hiring
- Bike vending
- Smart grid tech
Green spaces
Concepts, ideas, movements and art
- solarpunk genre; here showing high-speed public transport and close clean lakes
- Concept of minimal buildings and roads (making use of things like online shopping, rail transport, and vertical construction) combined with maximal integrated nature and solar microgeneration
- Bike-to-school day