That’s the title of this special report from the Financial Times. (You can register for free for limited monthly access to the FT online. It’s worth it. See also their many RSS feeds. I subscribe to “Energy Source,” a highly useful blog.)
There are articles here on adaptation to climate change, dealing with the critical question of water supply, building strong and sustainable structures, public transportation, and the redoubtable environment correspondent, Fiona Harvey, on Green vision: the search for the ideal eco-city. Harvey points out what many of us urban environmentalists have known for eons: “As scientists call for urgent reductions in greenhouse gases to stave off climate change, cities could play a vital role in cutting carbon dioxide while remaining the engines of the economy that they are in any industrialised society.”
