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Expand the frontiers of urban sustainability [1]

Manhattan skyscrapers, rather than rustic rural towns, are quickly becoming the picture of sustainable living in the twenty-first century. San Francisco, Copenhagen and Singapore each top their regions in the Green City Index. As sites of innovation and economic dynamism, these places exemplify a blend of density and livability that large, prosperous cities in the 'global south', such as Mumbai in India and São Paulo in Brazil, increasingly emulate.

Original Source [2]

Publication Date: 
25/08/2016
David Wachsmuth [3], Daniel Aldana Cohen [4], Hillary Angelo [5]
Nature [6]
536
391-392
Tags:
Urban Habitat [7], Climate Change [8], Climate Adaptation [9], Public Transport [10], Pollution [11], Walking [12], Municipal Bodies [13], Cycles [14], Poverty [15], Urban Sanitation [16], Green Spaces [17], India [18], China [19], Brazil [20], Asia [21], Consumption Patterns [22], N C America [23], London [24], New York [25]

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