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"Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody." Jane Jacobs, writer and activist

Most humans now live in cities. The quality of urban life therefore considerably defines the quality of human life.

Action ideas

Cittaslow, slow cities

Wanted pages

Rainwater harvesting, WP
City farm, City farm ^W

Other ideas

Sustainable Tower Blocks
Urban Citizen Forestry
Transforming derelict buildings into vertical gardens, sustainablecitiescollective.com, February 21, 2012

Wanted pages and external links

Urbanisation ^W
Category:Urban studies and planning ^W
Urban planning ^W
City region ^W
Sustainable city ^W
Masdar City ^W, United Arab Emirates ^W
Sustainable urban drainage systems ^W
Built environment ^W
GUSSE, Global Urban Sustainability Solutions Exchange

Resources Edit

Random facts
Shared lessons: cities, spaces, equity, International Institute for Environment and Development
State of the World 2007: Our Urban Future, Worldwatch Institute, January 2007

Research Edit

Eco-Cities, multi-national research network co-ordinated by scholars at the University of Westminster (London), the Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore), and the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian Institution (Washington DC).