CITB02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter pp. 404-409: Gro Harlem Brundtland, Frank Lloyd Wright, Our Common Future
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The city reader: towards sustainable development (world commission on. 404-409: editor"s introduction, the relationship between the city and the surrounding natural environment has always helped to define the character and quality of urban life. Report continued to grow with the rio declaration on environment and development in. 1992, the kyoto protocol on global climate change in 1997-1999, and the world summit on. New urbanists and other advocates of environmentally low-impact building techniques, pedestrian-friendly cities, electric automobiles, and renewable energy sources like solar and wind: recent trend: dense cities are, per capita, the greenest type of human settlement pattern. "misguided environmentalism" - edward glaeser (examples of this: building height controls, which often pushes urban populations out of cities towards the sprawling suburbs, thereby creating more pollution and more wasteful, unsustainable patterns of land use. In many parts, the newborn can also expect to attain a higher standard of living in a wider sense.
