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Sustainable Cities: Oxymoron, Utopia, or Inevitability?

ISSN: 0362-3319.
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Oleh : LURTON BLASSINGAME, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
Dibuat : 2012-06-19, dengan 1 file

Keyword : Sustainable Cities: Oxymoron, Utopia, or Inevitability?
Subjek : Sustainable Cities: Oxymoron, Utopia, or Inevitability?
Sumber pengambilan dokumen : Internet

The argument that the words “sustainable cities” are an oxymoron seems obvious.


Sustainability means that a unit use no more than it can replace. Cities do; therefore


they are not sustainable. QED. The first premise of that syllogism can easily be


expanded. City residents eat food they do not grow, buy products they do not make,


use non-renewable energy, build with materials they do not produce, and so on. When


ecologists charge that a city is not sustainable, however, they go further than the logician.


They ring the now familiar changes on the ways that cities actively harm the


physical environment and thereby make the entire region less able to sustain life.


While large, central cities are deemed unsustainable because of the arguments noted


above, the environmentalist’s hottest anger is reserved for that most unsustainable of


urban forms, sprawl. Sprawl is a curious phenomenon in that it is widely criticized, and


also extremely popular, which makes it an excellent litmus test for the values necessary


to create sustainable cities. Once confined to residential communities on the edge of,


and clearly dependent upon, central cities, sprawl has now evolved in many places into complete mixed-use communities some of which have been labelled Edge Cities.


Whether they are seen as an urban form that allows their inhabitants to have it all-a


high paying job for both spouses, big city amenities, and safe low-density living---or


as unattractive, business dominated, and rootless places, Edge Cities, as well as traditional


residential sprawl, are above all else, car dependent. Every member of the family


must drive, or be driven, to virtually every activity. Such communities are significantly


less sustainable than traditional cities, and are more harmful to the general environment.

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