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Brit's Eye View: Greening our cities
How do U.K. cities stack up in terms of sustainability? |
Peter Madden |
26 Nov 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Peter Madden, chief executive of Forum for the Future, writes a monthly column for Gristmill on sustainability in the U.K. and Europe. Every year more and more people live in cities. Globally, we became a majority urban world for the first time last year, while here in the U.K., nine out of 10 of us live in towns and cities. Cities are clearly important for sustainability. Although the romantic green notion of us all living on small holdings with a goat, a vin ... |
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| Topics: ecological footprint, green living, placemaking, United Kingdom, urban planning (all these topics) |
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