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

Action Ideas Edit

Articles Cittaslow, slow cities	Wanted pages Rainwater harvesting City farms	other ideas Sustainable Tower Blocks Urban Citizen Forestry

Resources Edit

• Green Infrastructure Valuation Toolkit
• City Tracker, from Centre for Cities, mostly economic data

Random facts Edit

• 86% of fly-tipping (in England) takes place in predominantly urban authorities where 63% of people in England live. Source: Defra
• The (UK) Government's Headline indicator of air pollution shows that since 1997, the number of days of High air pollution in urban areas has roughly halved from 40 days in 1997 to 22 in 2005. Source: Defra, November 3 2006

Related Edit

SCA Urban & village design category:City Spatial planning Local needs met locally Cities and biodiversity	Wikipedia Urbanisation wikipedia:Category:Urban studies and planning Urban planning City region	Wikisphere

Wanted pages and external links

• Creative Spaces includes a toolkit for particpatory urban design

Urban focus Portal - news - feeds - cities / UK - news - UK cities / China - USA cities